The Dates in a Life Walking Project 2017 painting was created in 2019 using data on my iPhone documenting the number of steps I walked each day in 2017.

2017 was the year I had a milestone birthday, so I designed the painting so my birthdate is filled in with yellow-gold, and the blue lines under each icon changed to orange on my birthday and continued through the rest of the year.

The solid white squares highlight Saturdays and Sundays in columns. I usually (but not always) had more time to walk on the weekend, after I caught up on sleep and had more energy to exercise.

I prefer to walk for exercise, as time permits, outside in addition to whatever other walking I do as I go about my day. My goal is to walk as much as I can every day. 

To keep track of steps, I used the Health app in my iPhone. 

I used a system of symbols to represent each thousand steps. Instead of showing exactly how many I walked. The black icons represent up to 9999 steps walked each day, red represents 10,000-19,999 steps and yellow represents 20,000-29,999 steps.

The painting is created with monoprinted textures of a construction fence as the background, handstamped rubber erasers on fabric which are collaged on the background grid, as well as handpainting and stitching on stiffened fabric.