We are not made up of lines. Still, we see them. Gestalt visual theory explains that our brains create shortcuts so we can read visual input quickly. Reducing complex images to a linear sketch is one of our brain's amazing tricks. Others include using visual information we have previously processed to complete an incomplete image, prioritizing movement so that we can see that ant moving across the counter, however small (or detect the hungry tiger in the tall grass). When I drew these dancers, using line, then made screenprints of those drawings to further bolden and simplify the mark-making, I was participating in their work. By looking at these images and adding in what I have edited out, you are participating in mine.
