I was **struggling to find a tool**. Everything felt like just another object designed for the human body (either overly elitist, highly technical, or overloaded with funcionalities. So I started wondering, what if we used the **body** itself as the **tool**, as the work? 

We tend to do everything with our hands and think of them as the most powerfull source for making. But then I started looking at my **feet**, the ones that have carried my entire body since I was 15 months old, when I first learned to walk with only two points of support.

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I had practiced athletics and dance when I was younger, but when I got to university, I stopped. My feet were simply there to support my body. Recently, I started running and walking again, but my feet began to hurt a lot. Interestingly, **the pain started when I began using my body again**, to explore, to walk, to run… to really **use it**. We tend to dehumanize our bodies, yet they are some of the most powerful tools we will ever have. 

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The foot represents pain and beauty, freedom (with the hippie movement f.ex) and poverty. But it all started with a **unit of measure**, using the body itself as a **way to determine our surroundings**.

I started analyzing my feet in a physical way, paying attention to measurements and details, but also in a sensory way, by placing them in different environments.

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My main objectives are to understand and explore the relationship between **feet**, **objects** and **communities**, and also how our bodies are **transformed** through their use. 

[[http://www.bhthom.org/hikertxt.htm#III_k]]