Description
Lines on Paper
By Nick G Liadis
A line on paper
is always in a state
of becoming.
It traces a line of thought
An urgent walk down the sidewalk
Tufts of fresh cirrus clouds
The path of swallows over a pond
Patterns
Complex patterns
And sometimes
Only itself.
It is a contour of a face
But also of the hill that meets the ocean
And of forms known
Or unknown: future.
It is an idea.
It implies a world beyond.
Even beyond the boundaries of the paper.
A line on paper
constantly adapts, records, delineates.
It transitioning from
Straight to irregular
Broken to continuous
Faint to intense,
And has the potential
To shift
In any direction.
Indicating a decisive point in the lineage
A shift moves towards new possibility
Without concealing what had been drawn previously
Otherise.
