Re:DE:ConStruction. Desire Path.

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Re:DE:ConStruction. Desire Path.

In this episode, we follow the faint but insistent trails known as desire paths—the shortcuts people carve across parks and fields when the built walkways don’t work out for us. These paths expose a quiet truth: the structures laid out for us, however orderly, often feel restrictive. Our footsteps carry a stubborn urge to walk our own map.

The park and its enclosures - open or gated - becomes a metaphor for language itself. Grammar and syntax are the paved routes, but every detour in speech or writing opens up fresh ground. Realness lives not in the mapped avenues, but in the paths we make when we bend or resist the rules.

Our pacemaker, setting the beat of these wanderings, is the voice. Each pause, each stumble, each pulse of sound reminds us that expression thrives in movement, deviation, and the refusal to walk only where we’re told.

Produced by Alex July 2025.