ABSTRACT
In the Life of Lines Ingold develops a philosophical and ecological anthropology that is at once expansive, integrative, and inclusive. His poetic narrative interlaces bodies, minds, landscapes, topographies, and perceptions in a correspondence of lines. This chapter explains in the year 1889, in the month of June, the painter Vincent van Gogh found himself in a situation much like the one he has just described, and he painted what he saw. It describes that the night sky glitters with a thousand such sparks, which will burn for as long as they glow in our own eyes. Seeing with sunbeams is like feeling the wind: it is an affective mingling of one's own awareness with the turbulence and pulsations of the medium in which are immersed. The chapter explains how the beam of light passes through the eye, in a swirling trajectory that has no point of origin or destination.
