Neither this video nor this song intentionally have anything to do with walking, environment, or perception that I am aware of, but the way the video is shot and the subject matter is a style I use and really like because it seems natural and not particularly edited - it feels more like an instinctive succession of sequential remembering of observations, which is how walking takes us back to our own pasts and from that and beyond to other peoples' pasts. With each footstep comes a new thought and as more ground is covered more thoughts are.. one leading to the next, rationally or not.
It is a narrative that doesn't make sense of something but creates a feeling of elegiac attachment to a place... the way we stroll around town or through fields along the same routes day after day, and no matter how long we leave it before we come back, just stepping foot in the same place brings back vivid observations of the past; of things we saw on the path and of things that were unrelated to the path but happening elsewhere those times we used to walk the path.
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