As linhas ingoldianas: a vida das linhas e a vida nas linhas

“Matisse had a very blob-like way of depicting the human form. His figures are voluminous, rotund and heavily outlined. Yet the magic of the painting is that these anthropomorphic blobs pulse with vitality. They do so because the painting can also be read as an ensemble of lines drawn principally by the arms and legs. Most importantly, these lines are knotted together at the hands, to form a circuit that is perpetually on the point of closure – once the hands of the two figures in the foreground link up – yet that always escapes it. The linking of hands, palm to palm and with fingers bent to form a hook, does not here symbolise a togetherness that is attained by other means. Rather, hands are the means of togetherness. That is, they are the instruments of sociality, which can function in the way they do precisely because of their capacity – quite literally – to interdigitate. For the dancers, caught up in each other’s flexion, the stronger the pull, the tighter the grasp. In their blob-like appearance, Matisse gives us the materiality of the human form; but in their linear entanglement, he gives us the quintessence of their social life. How, then, should the social be described?” 

Texto retirado daqui.

Adenda 1
... a propósito (de Tim Ingold): "Pare, Olhe, Escute!".
Adenda 2
... com memória.