Merging the personal and the political, observation and contemplation,
the author examines what her life is and wonders what it should be; what
is expected of a thirty year old woman by society, by family and friends
and by herself. She walks the streets of her London, creating it and
herself -- gaining agency by being in control of her own direction,
speed and momentum. Walking is both an internal and external experience.
It's a time for self-reflection, for observing others and for imagining
how we appear to them. What is expected of a person of our age, sex, and
race, and how should that influence what we do and how we feel about
ourselves?
A poignant and contemporary meditation on gender politics, social
commentary, and eighties movies, all interlaced with shards of
autobiography and illustrated with a beautiful series of sequential and
non-sequential watercolour images.