This is a mix between an old wives tale and a superstitiona and this is another superstition that i had ideas for.
the idea of stepping on a crack in the pavement can cause your mothers back to be broken is highly impossible. believe it or not, the original myth of stepping on cracks didn’t have to do with breaking a mother’s back at all. Instead, it was more meaningful to children, as a warning of sorts. As to how effective this warning was, I can’t say. It originated some time in the 20th century and went a little something like this: when children walked over the cracks in the sidewalk they would meet up with these bears on a street corner. Once met, the bears would commence eating the children alive.over time this superstition morphed into the rhyme we know today: “step on a crack, break your mother’s back”. No one seems to agree on why it changed into this, perhaps just because it rhymed. Some say though, that in the last couple decades the superstition changed so that for every crack that was stepped on, it would correspond to the number of bones that would be broken in your mother’s body.
The idea that bones in the body will be broken due to something as simple as walking on a crack in the road. Its near impossible to walk normally and dodge the seams of the pavements but with the roads and pavements as it is its near impossible to walk anywhere without loosing track of all the seams and breaksin the pavements that you step on.
As a little experiment i did a little tally while i was out and i just gave up countingin the end. The amount was stupid. I took a small video clip on my phone to start off with, its nothing amazing but its something to kick-start me.
My next idea is to create a grid or a sequence, i said before that i wanted to encorperate dyptics or tyrptics or even multiples grids into this work and so i want to experiment with this idea, i think dyptics of photos of feet on cracks would work well... one left and one right? but i will experiment with this later. 
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