The walking man has no volume. Everything about him is spindly and reduced: the extremely thin body, arms and legs, the small head. The flat, clenched fists and the strangely formed clubfeet that seem to be glued to the ground, offset this. He seems to be eroded by time and space, reduced to a minimum and leaning forwards, en route to an unknown destination. Giacometti is fascinated by man in space, especially man in movement. He sees movement as a ‘succession of moments standing still’. In fact, he tries to depict the amalgamation of time and space in all his figures in motion.
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