Two Interviews: An Author and a Painter

I walk because it allows you to see a place in a way that you can’t when zooming through it, treating it as a spectacle to be commodified1. You get to know it, and the people in it, at a thick level, warts and all. You see things that others, including sometimes locals, miss, because of a perspective that comes with being an outsider, but one moving cautiously and slowly.