title: New Horizons: The Art of Wandering
author: Shirin Sahba
description: Shirin Sahba was born in India to Persian parents, visited 25 countries before she was 16 years old, and currently lives in Barcelona. Her work has been exhibited internationally.
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  # 14
  
  Rand had come to feel that his favorite part of the Shimizu was the corridors.
  They were designed to be visually appealing, padded enough for the most
  inexpert jaunter, and offered an ever-changing parade of rich and almost-rich
  people to gawk at. They were the place where one flew, where you could enjoy
  the sensation of a jaunt that was not over within seconds. Most important to
  him, they represented the blessed hiatus between the problems of the studio
  and the problems of the home. They were the equivalent of a solitary drive
  from office to home back on Terra: the place of unwinding from work, and of
  winding other mechanisms back up again.
  
  But sooner or later the corridors always led him back to his door. He was
  coming to think of it as the Place of Sighs; whichever direction he was going,
  he always seemed to pause just outside the threshold and sigh, first.
  
  He did so now, decided he was