Line (7:14) explores notions of labor and mark-making. It is an inquiry into the struggle for permanence. As the subject laboriously navigates across the frame they leave behind a trail of coal. The body is abstracted as it becomes the site of toil and a landscape the viewer must traverse.

The subject’s goal –what they are moving towards– is never elucidated. Perhaps the motivation for their struggle is solely to leave a remnant of their movement. If a line serves to map an action, how does the viewer’s perception change when the record of that action is available but the line is not?

Special thanks to Christopher Chung, Benjamin Katz and Laurie P.