Duration: 1 year
Data Collected: I recorded every journey I made on London Transport using my Gold Card (a yearly travel pass). I then calculated the distance of each route by tracing it on a scale map. I saved this data in an Excel spreadsheet and used it to calculate the ongoing cumulative distance.
Objectives: I was living in west London and had just begun a full time course at Goldsmiths College in south east London. I was spending over 2 hours travelling each day and I wanted to find out what sort of distance I was covering and what this would amount to after a whole year. I also had a strong desire to make something other than food the subject of my work - the everyday activity of commuting seemed a logical alternative.
Outcomes: Over the course of the year I travelled 9210 km - the equivalent of going to Shanghai. I made a ‘totaliser’ to mark the progress of my cumulative journey during the year. At the end of 2004, I revisualised the data for an exhibition, by creating a series of 28 posters featuring postcards from different global destinations at progressively further distances from Ealing Broadway.
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