We're made to move, and the act of sitting all day is actually incredibly harmful to the body. In days past all of our physical activity needs were met by the nature of existence; i.e. tilling the fields, grinding the maize etc. With the onset of the industrial revolution the physical nature of work became confined, mechanised and repetitive. With the onset of the information age, the nature of physical activity has become secondary to the mental processes of sifting through the meta-feed of daily data intake. Maintaining physical health through exercise becomes a kind of extra-labour, to be performed on top of the normal daily office routine.
This work is dedicated to the memory of my uncle, Glenn Nigel Jowitt, a man who understood the value of the ridiculous.