I was thinking along those lines

Something changes in the room every time you touch it. Partial thoughts and hesitations moving as fragments. Each page heartbreakingly banal, yet every line internalized. A quiet lesson in how to behave, how not to stray, how to fill in what has already been outlined. 

But what happens when a line escapes?

I trace, lose, pick up again. At times I follow; at times I don’t. The lines continue onto the floor, into the room–no longer fixed to the page.  What begins as instruction slowly turns into habit. Something learned before it is understood. A way of seeing that strays even when the drawing stops.  Building on reflections around how play, imagination, and creativity are shaped in early learning, this coloring book follows a mode of “thinking along the lines”, tracing and questioning the tools that quietly condition how these ideas are formed.