SoDA WORKS 2013

It starts with a path, it is not exactly a road as it is rocky, it is lumpy, it is not built like a road, but it is drawn, is there
earth? there is earth, are there also herbs? herbs there are too, and there are a few cracks as there are sometimes rocks
coming out of the earth, you know it is a track, how do we call this? rural, you see, is it the kind of road where there
are traces of wheels, where there is a hollow on both sides and you can choose to walk in the middle, where there is a
little grass, yes, and with tire tracks of cars left by the rain or mud, does it stick a bit? it’s rather dry, it is rather dry and
there, the sort of little bounce is a transition to another quality of path or soil, which for me is harder, stronger, there is
a false level part that goes up, if it lasts for a while you get sore calves without realising it, so at this moment, you don’t
realise that it goes up when you look at your feet, you don’t realise that it goes up at all but when you look into the
distance, you see a slight elevation, where the path quality is more defined, less grassy, less rustic than before, and there
are pine cones in the road, you kick them when you walk, there are pine cones and there are the shells of chestnuts
left there as well, you know, there are puddles, yes stagnant water, but not deep, no, only in small holes, and there it
goes again, more sharply, then you can really feel it in your walk, it goes up for quite a distance and at this level there
has been recent work, someone put gravel there recently, it is aggregated gravel, that‘s it, if you slip over it it could be
dangerous, it grips slightly when you walk on it, it‘s very dark, very dark and aggregated, it‘s hard too, it is hard gravel,
and precisely here I arrive on a proper road, this is the beginning of a proper road with grey tarmac, much less black
than the road I‘ve just seen, it is used, it is quite soft, it is so soft, there is a mark on the ground, white stripes on both
sides of the road, but not in the middle of the road, you walk in the middle, so I walk in the middle, or rather middle
right, in the middle but to the right of the middle, are you quite near the border of the road and sometimes the grass
brushes you, are there herbs? are there bushes, what is there on the sides? there are herbs, they are more neglected
than bushes, they are scrubs...
Topographic map reading (excerpt), September 2013