ABSTRACT
Trace-making is the material inscription of graphic traces spatially arranged on a surface. The articulation of material inscriptions is a record of the trace-maker's activity, arising through the movement of a graphic tool on a surface. The chapter considers how the diverse trajectories of movement and becoming engendered by graphic traces are extensions of the agent's world and its being-in-the-word and the means whereby it threads and loops its way into the world as a self who has perspectives on the world. Catherine's interactivity with the campus display allows scholars to de-familiarise their usual view of 'text' as a stable and relatively homogeneous entity that fixes the parameters of the social transactions between the graphic traces and the map reader. Meshworks co-articulate interconnected and interacting heterogeneous components into a larger-scale emergent whole without however subordinating the components to a single unifying principle that homogenises them.
