This morning, I had my "dérive" experience and it was quite refreshing. I stayed around campus and actually went in a rectangle back to where I started; possibly subconsciously, I knew where I was going and therefore walked in full circle. According to Debord, "the first psychogeographical attractions discovered by dérivers may tend to fixate them around new habitual axes, to which they will constantly be drawn back" and I feel that is what happened to me. I was drawn to the natural aspect of the landscape and kept taking note of certain elements of symmetry wherever I walked. I also payed attention to color and the idea of how different shapes and colors occupied space. Overall, I feel like I sort of understood the "drifting" experience.
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