Lines 2

The relations to textiles  represents the great analogy that fibers have to lines.  Textiles are an architecture within a 2D element.  Complex crossing, knotting and structure make lines into forms.

Joe + Anders

The trace and thread belong together and must exist alongside each other.  One is an active exploration, the other a record, but the lines can become both in many circumstances.  Surface, for example, stems from this.

Lauren, Esmé, Emily


-- more physical, tangible subject matter in this chapter.
-- Ingold still seems to tackle too much in one chapter.
-- more a study of the nature of people than the nature of lines.
-- looking at people through the line.
-- the line is a method to understand humanity.

Kyle, Josh, Anna, Wesley, Jen

-- You could describe almost anything in terms of lines.  As such, Ingold's taxonomy of different types of line seems arbitrary, and not necessarily useful.  The question then is whether or not line is a useful metaphor.  we think it is.


-- We are interested in the way threads come together to form surfaces, and vice versa.  This is a good metaphor for culture.

Emma, Tracy, Hania, Eric