Runners and cyclists make art

Fitness fanatics are creating art while tracking their runs and bike rides on their phones, turning their exercise into a masterpiece.

When you create art with your GPS as a paintbrush, you follow points on a map to make a single line across an area to create the artwork. You enter the points into a fitness tracking app called 'Strava' in advance, and the app then traces your every move. If you make a mistake, your whole artwork has to be started all over again.

Artists from around the world upload their drawings to Instagram, where they join a growing gallery with more than 18,000 pieces posted under the hashtag GPS Art that already show hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

Artists say that the activity is a mix of art and exercise, and for many, it began with the pandemic when traffic suddenly went away and people had more free time.