A Line is an Edge, is a Colour, is a Shadow: Towards a Posthuman Account of Painting

Abstract

A line is simultaneously a colour, a texture, and a tone: It is the abutting edge of positive and negative; the touching point of autonomous bodies. Following posthumanist scholars such as Sylvia Wynter, Karen Barad, and Cary Wolfe this essay employs a series of aesthetic insights on form, gathered in an abstract painter’s studio, and applies them towards a methodology of care/full looking. Care/full looking traces the contingency of formal relationships so that a more robust ethico-onto-epistemology emerges: One that displays the entanglement of matter as it materializes and intra-acts with other bodies.