Drawing locates me anchors grounds me - connection (pencil meeting paper in this case) with the/a material world (touch) is confirmation of my existence does. As does walking.
Ingold: The landscape is a tapestry within which lives are woven, not a stage performed on. "In all these ways-in their texture, their temporality and their literal embeddedness in a landscape of habitation - footprints differ from stamps. Perhaps, then they should be likened to inscriptions, to lines traced in a surface rather than stamped upon it......in printing there is no relation between the technically effective gesture and the graphic forms it serves to deliver".
I've been dwelling here for a bit, wondering about the likeness of footprints to "as the actual trace of a gestural movement" rather than a print. Thinking about the 'sensory experience of pressure commonly described as touch.
What I know:
In print the point of connection is the plate and the surface...
The print is rolled, in a pre-made form, it doesn't 'journey' through the landscape of the 'ground'
Print doesn't feel embodied, but inscription can happen- Intaglio work - and this process could be seen as embodied and investigating touch.
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