Conceptual and performance artist Stan Shellabarger walks as a mode of action-driven expression. Using modest materials and spatially-constrained courses, he creates one-of-a-kind “walking books” that are part performance art and part drawing. For Shellabarger, walking functions both as the method and the content of his work. The hours-long duration of his mark-making activity and the repetitive and rhythmic nature of his movements resemble spiritual and secular forms of meditation, a ritualized exercise that directs awareness inward. As a result, his work is rich with metaphorical connotations, evoking ideas such as temporality, human consciousness, and the cyclical nature of life. Shellabarger created this unique work by walking a labyrinthine spiral laid out on a large sheet of red rosin paper that had been placed over a diamond-pattern industrial steel floor. Wearing sandpaper-soled shoes, he repeatedly paced the pre-determined route, abrading and perforating the surface of the paper through the recurrent action of his footsteps. As the product of his body in motion, the residual marks and tracks left on the rosin paper are a tangible record of a single walking performance.