An impasse occurs. Suddenly words seem incapable of attending to the contours of a project. The urgency that brought a project into activation is weighed down by a fear of not being capable of articulating its shifting stakes. How to diagram its force back into existence?
The diagramming practice began with a dissertation stalled. The intuition that moved the first diagramming was that visualizing the project’s shape might lead to a better sense not only of its orientation but also of its form. Was the writing as it was unfolding facilitating the project’s potential?
From vectors to portals, shapes emerge through diagramming that make felt where problems have lapsed into false problems and where urgent questions have become sidelined. A practice of drawing what feels most necessary and lingering with its orientations, these diagrams for thinking in the act are not maps so much as cartographic propositions for a thinking that celebrates nuance and recognizes the many voices that run through it.
