Sunrise Walks – Augmented Topography is a walking performance exploring the relationship between the solar cycle, the inscription of the body within the landscape, and the materialization of light. Created as part of Sunrise Walks – British Summer Time Season 12, this walk followed a precise protocol: three photographs were taken 15 minutes before, at the exact moment of, and 15 minutes after sunrise in Paris.

Each image was captured with rigorous technological anchoring: precise GPS coordinates, exact timestamps, orientation angles, and environmental data. The addition of an augmented reality overlay integrates these images into an augmented topography, where light becomes both an aesthetic and spatial data point.

This project intertwines with another ongoing performance, Moving Totemic Bamboo, in which a walking stick accompanies each journey, gradually accumulating found elements along the way. The third photograph thus reveals the dialogue between two modes of inscription:

One based on the celestial cycle, where light marks the passage of time.
The other on terrestrial accumulation, where walking transforms an object through successive additions.
This performance questions the act of archiving movement: is a trace a documented instant, or an ever-evolving process? The repetition of sunrise inscribes the walk within a broader cycle, where the ephemeral becomes archival, and the collective ritual intertwines with the individual trajectory.