I plan to generate a comparative relationship between 1. temporal lines of a moving body, 2. perceived permanent lines apparent in our environment, and 3. the imagined lines that conjure thought and concepts. Anthropologist Tim Ingold introduces a body of thought he calls himself ‘linealogy’ which compares the appearance of lines as threads and traces across a vast array of fields. Karen Barad frequently speaks of entanglement in her description of intra-activity, a way that matter, phenomena and agency reconfigure themselves. Anthropologist Maxine Sheets-Johnstone writes about lines and details their ‘spatio-temporal-energic three-fold qualitative character’. To follow Ingold, Barad and Sheets-Johnstone’s premise that the ways we act in the world are not separate from the ways we perceive the world, I propose looking at our linear connections as the folded lines and surfaces in an origami figure. If we look at the whole body as a piece of paper, folding itself over time through movement and resulting in different ares of human attention, we can start to see the possibility of how things relate to each other. I aim to situate the research not ‘about’ lines of the body, but ‘from’ lines of the body.

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