Tracing paper as a site for “taking the mind for a walk”

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This article concentrates on the tactility of a mind-walk that is realized by writingon tracing paper. The mind becomes a terrain as it is being walked on whilewriting, and writing is both making traces on a surface and opening a path inthe mind. As the writing continues, lines match with time, and the path that hasalready been visited becomes distant. A methodology has been researched to seethe previously visited path and the upcoming path simultaneously. The need forseeing both past and present has turned into an initiator idea of seeing depth onthe paper surface that has employed tracing paper as a site for this experimentalwork. Generally used as an architectural drawing medium, tracing paper is usedboth as a surface and a design environment. As the tracing paper is a translucentplane that makes seeing the superposed lines altogether possible, resorting to thepapers diversifies the mind-path created by a single line. Thus, a thought becomesnot an extending line that drifts away, but a visual experience of visiting superposedwritings simultaneously. The totality and wayfare of thought unfold in andthrough the frame by its size A4 (21x29.7 cm). In this article, the possibilitiesof a medium are presented through tracing individual experiences. Also a pathnarrative is employed to delineate the understanding of the case of being on acontinuous walk. Both the path narrative and the tracing paper have been toolsfor experiencing a surface with depth.