Reflection: 

Richard Long’s Line Made by Walking has become one of the biggest influences on my work. His art carries a powerful phenomenological implication: the line as a life‑line, a physical manifestation of a specific duration of time spent in a specific place.

The line is an embodied record of movement, repetition, and presence.

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During March and April, the idea of measuring time became central to my practice. I was searching for my own visual way to experience duration, not as a number or a unit, but as something lived. Long’s work helped me see that a line can hold time inside it.

After my experiment with palimpsest, where i was trying to recreate an image in thread. Although I didn’t feel the outcome was successful or something I wanted to continue to perfect, something important happened.

I realised that thread is a line.

where Long is creating a line that becomes an integral part of land, I am creating a line that becomes integral to my story. The interesting conversation is happening at the moment, where Long's line although integral to the moment will eventually disappear without any trace, theere can be argument, tyhe space has been changed for the duration of the line. Stitch line is only as permanent as the stitches remains on the fabric. These stitches can be removed. However, its the base material, that will determine, if the removal is with or without traces. 

This recognition became integral to my work. Even when the experiment didn’t produce the result I hoped for, it revealed something essential about my process. I am not just making lines, I am tracing my own duration, my own movements, my own lived experience, my memories.

Each thread, each mark, each repeated gesture becomes a record of time spent, attention given, and presence embodied.

and just like Long, I am learning that the line is not simply just draw, it is something that is lived.