(Between Street Hall and Skull & Bones)
In the second half of my voyage, I have been focussing more on the qualities of the line itself...its thickness and quality...
...and also delineating whether or not certain objects within each delineated space are considered part of that realm (be it Yale or New Haven)...or not.
...is the 'public' pavement separating parts of Yale from each other considered part of Yale?
Also, whereabouts in the snow should I draw the line, so to speak? In the middle or closer to the edges?
Are pawprints in the 'Yale' section of snow considered part of Yale? It is a mark left by a decidedly non-Yalian entity, but it is in Yale territory, but it is on a liminal material...
...what about trees?
...what about the places where the snow has melted?
My snow boundary between the side of Old Campus and the shops on Chapel Street.
My stick delineates.
...what about people in Yale territory? ON Yale territory? What about the space underneath their feet?
If I move my camera fast enough, the line seems to take on a shape and direction of its own...(between Old Campus and the New Haven Green)
The line from Phelps Gate, that delineated Old Campus from The Green, turned the corner and delineated parts of Old Campus from the Chapel Street Shops, up until Street Hall came face to face with the Yale University Art Gallery...the line is long and continuous, and afterwards I was very tired...my tiredness became part of the work...of delineation.
The line that delineates Skull & Bones from Jonathan Edwards College...halfway through I disappear and reemerge, after falling through some frozen ice into the icy wetness below, but the line remains continuous...the line fattens, in the darkness, where my body fell through it...again, the process of drawing becomes part of the work, through both the pain and bitter cold as well as the imprint left behind.
...If my stamina stops, does the delineation stop?
...What about if the snow stops?
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