It was my interest in writing that first started me thinking about how lines are made. The mark-made line links writing to drawing; the spoken line links sound to song, reaching beyond the human to remember a kinship with the more-than human activities of sounding, marking and threading. My interest in this wobbly event of the line, how it is made and what its making conveys, led me to develop this intra-disciplinary, creative-critical enquiry.
Piggy-backing on Tim Ingold’s provisional taxonomy of line, this research explores different events of line - threads (the self-supporting line), traces (the surface-dependent line), dots (the broken line) & invisible or imaginary lines - and considers how these different linear modalities intra-act to perform an experimental ecology of line.
