The interview is on a simple scale a publicity interview for Self's book Psychogeography but on a broader scale it reveals much about his connection to this style of walking. He says it began for him with the thought that he had never seen the mouth of the Thames river, either in person or in a representation. He then chose to drive to the mouth and was surprised by how it did not look anything like what he had imagined. He explains how from that finding this type of walk has transformed into more than just an exercise. It holds spiritual meaning that he says has affected his soul in an incredibly positive way.
Self's experiences as a drift walker really helped my media projects in that it helped me connect to my drift walks better. I remembered how he said it was a "bare-bones" kind of practice. You just go out there, with almost nothing, expecting nothing, and absorbing whatever you can. There are no strings attached and you come out of it with not exactly what you put into it, but what you accept or allow. The words that really affected me and rang throughout my walks were, "the hideousness of the globalized, man-machine matrix." I felt like I was able to remove myself from the machine and witness a natural beauty that I think I can find whenever I want from now on in my life.
