A pyschogeographical walk through 4 areas that span the old West Riding of Yorkshire. I'm trying to show how the places often feel like to inhabit, and more importantly trying to look to alternative ways of representating these areas.All too often I find reality is massively cropped to take the more picturesque. I think that trying to reveal the psychogeography of places is crucial for understanding our real material conditions. I have chosen this area because it is the landscape I know best. It's a question of an understanding of time and space, recalling experiences of them instead of relying on more conventional representations that can often misrepresent the true feelings we have and have had in landscapes.

This all related to the Mapping Capitalism course I began, but couldn’t complete, in London, and in particular theorist Fredric Jameson’s notion of cognitive mapping, as a modern means to class conciousness and awareness of our real material conditions, in the disorientating world under late capitalism. Informed by both the philosopher Althusser and the urbanist/town planner who used psychogeographical ideas to create better living environments, Kevin Lynch, Jameson argued that the “mental map of a city explored by Lynch can be extrapolated to that of the social and global totality we carry around in our heads in various garbled forms”.

If not to anyone else, I find this deeply informative to myself. It’s like when I look back on what I have written the landscape reveals its true identity to me; something an A-Z or Google map could never do. It also made me realise that there is something to be gained conceptually from any walk. Not just a walk through the most tourist-friendly spots on earth.