04 . Line Project
An inquiry into how beliefs take shape. The underlying variables are shared, but the outcomes differ. This is mirrored in a collaborative drawing process where fixed parameters produce radically different results.
The project began after a conversation with my uncle, whose political and religious views stand in deep contrast to my own. Through our exchange, I recognized that our convictions were not simply oppositional but the result of distinct configurations of the same underlying variables: genetic, social, environmental, and epistemological. This realization shifted my attention from what we believed to how beliefs are formed.
Each participant begins by responding to a written questionnaire about a divisive issue, identifying the variables that have influenced their position and then are asked to imagine how someone with an opposing view might have come to hold theirs. The goal is not consensus or correction, but awareness and space for coexistence: to notice the shared equation beneath difference. The parameters through which belief forms are universal; what changes is the output. Recognizing this allows for a kind of relational health, where diversity of thought and curious dialogue can coexist without collapse.
We then translate this reflection into a drawing. Within a 6x9 frame, we take turns drawing 108 straight lines, passing the pen back and forth. The parameters are fixed, yet the outcomes are always different. The drawing becomes a record of exchange, a document of two people attending to the same structure from different vantage points.
Line Project values the exchange itself: the act of paying attention together to how beliefs are made, and what it means to hold them.
