Chester Hubble is a fine artist who works in the realms of perambulation, land art and heavy metal. His current project is to walk blindfolded across cities, only removing his blindfold to see what he has walked into. He writes down what he has walked in and then continues on his blindfolded way. “I am interested in the tension between freedom and control, and showing the danger inherent in crossing busy roads whilst unsighted and listening to heavy metal podcasts.”
Hubble’s work is created at the end of each day, when he transcribes the list of everything he has walked into onto a canvas. “If I have been in an accident and am in hospital then I do not always transcribe everything that day. In which case that day’s walk is null and void, and when I have recuperated I restart the project and do that day’s walk again. That is why I have been knocked over by speeding super cars on Park Lane eleven times. But I hope to successfully cross the road and continue my walk across London ASAP.”