In this lecture we were shown an early cave painting and were asked if we knew why these markings were made- surprisingly majority of people thought that they were documenting their life and the animals they came across or hunted and then some people thought that it was a way of storytelling to their young- however I personally feel that these paintings and engravings were solely produced as a creative outlet and possibly as a way of entertaining themselves just like we doodle on desks and notebooks when we’re bored. But just like everything that dates back to early the early ages of human evolution we can only make conclusions based upon presumptions we form and it is only through interpretation of what we see that we can make assumptions upon. Cave paintings and engravings are probably one of the early forms of line we can reference back to, we may not fully understand what these lines or mark making collate to then but within these lines memory is simultaneously documented and captured within them.
This Lecture swiftly moved onto how the element of lines in our modern day life is prominent in different ways- we created mind maps (which are line forms within themselves) about what lines we consider to be prominent in our lives’, a few obvious ones cropped up for example; transport lines, writing and drawing but also less we spoke about mathematical/geometrical lines, biological lines and lines of memory and how each of these relate to one another.
Memory relating to Lines was an area which we spoke in-depth about, as its an analogy that varies individually from person to person. For example some of us pictured memory as a structured and systematically ordered including inputs, outputs and processes but we also envisioned memory as an intricate network of interlinking and intertwining map much like an tangled network of made of thread. I personally see my memory as the latter- but regardless of this I think the direct correlation of memory and line form is something we can’t deny and is very important to the lives we lead.
Tonicha Child 