Spatial re-enactment through the act of drawing takes the projection of the body moving in space and extends it outwards into a negotiation of ways in which that body and its space are violently interrupted. This essay does not establish violence as necessarily brutal, but as a force that acts upon space; it refuses completeness.
To consider the role of language and violence together, drawing allows for an articulation that transcends activities and practices. It establishes the locus of the body moving in space as mutable and flexible. It is through this spatial logic that an aesthetic of distance can be established, explored and exploited.
Drawn marks and lines create presence and absence, mark and erasure. Drawing exceeds paper and the body drawing in space becomes a drawing act, a violent act upon space that draws together haptic and optical realms.