After initiating The Walk Series video documentation / performances in San Francisco,  I began my next
series of walk projects while backpacking in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains during the summer of 1974. 
The resulting videotapes, pond / pass / peak (1974), and kiva / temple / pyramid (1975), were produced with support from the National Endowment for the Arts’ inaugural video fellowship program in 1974.

Parallel to the natural environments of a pond, a mountain pass and peak, kiva / temple /
pyramid takes place in key historic cultural spaces of North America, Chaco Canyon’s
Great Kiva, Sun Temple, Mesa Verde, and The Pyramid of the Magician at Uxmal. This work
was inspired by my studies with two seminal visual anthropologists, John Adair and John Collier, who fueled my interest in Native American cultures.  These early walks incorporate my process
of exploring natural, cultural and virtual environments, and were eventually expanded into a body
of work that has continued over the past three decades and become the basis of my world-wide-walks projects.