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Portugal Walk map 67

"No sire, it's not a revolt; it's a revolution" My philosophy is to Keep On. My metaphorical enemy I call the Bastion. A Bastion is a fortified wall which prevents movement. One of the most famous Bastions was the Bastille in Paris which was not just a fortified wall but also a literal prison. The beginning of the French revolution was the storming or the Bastille, at which time someone said the words in this flag to the King. This sentence is a reminder to me that even the most seemingly impenetrable walls , prisons, and regimes can be torn down and freedom created. On a side note, I once walked a secret tunnel under where the Bastille once stood. This is a metaphor to me that there is more than one way out of or past a wall or prison.
This is map piece #67 from my current walk, a 350 mile walk across Portugal. The piece is my art done on a map page used for the walk. The map goes with me on the walk and guides me and contains the walk in the dirt, rain , sweat or whatever accumulates on it from the road. I find it special for that reason. The sentence I come up with or find on the walk and graffiti it on the walk. The piece is made on the road, on the walk. My aim with my art is to give a piece of the walk through my art and I do believe that is accomplished because of the aspects of the art previously mentioned. Another part of the art is that the selling of the art is what enables me to further walk. In my mind that is part of the art, the way everything goes together. The walking feeds the thinking which creates the sentences and I do my art on the road doing what I love and the art helps me to keep going and doing what I love.
The thick red line on the Piece is the path I walked.
The map is printed on high quality 250g paper. And the art is done with alcohol based and acrylic markers.
Comes with 3 Screen printed Eggshell stickers.

Image of Portugal Walk map 67