motif: WANDER LINES

A concept I love from Deligny, originally in French as ligne d’erre, and integral to Deleuze’s philosophy, of which I am a reader and student. For Deligny, wander lines are the topographical markings, or maps, of autistic children’s wanderings in a desert landscape as a means of unsettling the primacy of speech and other “stagnant humanisms” – or, to explore the possibilities between people and their environments, subjectivity and gestures within a social milieu. We are mistaken to think place itself has no agency, force, persuasion as to how we ourselves move about the world. The hand-drawn lines of this cartography of movement  inspire me, move me deeply.