ABSTRACT
Drawing becomes drawings. If there is a line through drawing it divides, yielding differing
though related concerns. The task here is to allow two of those concerns a productive
intersection. The first concern, while having a form of generality insofar as what it brings
up for consideration is the inscription of futural possibilities into the present, arises from
the description of architecture and building that can be located in Paul’s Letter to the
Hebrews 11:10 and which pertains to descriptions of what can designated as the city-
to-come. In the Letter Paul describes how the nomadic Abraham envisaged a better
future. Paul writes that Abraham ‘was awaiting [ἐξεδέχετο] the city [πόλιν] that has
foundations, whose architect and builder [τεχνίτης καὶ δημιουργὸς] was God’.
