Bonding as a spatial practice: Bonding through drawing

Based on a personal bonding experience I had with a roof beam during a temporary residency in Brussels, I look into possibilities of bonding as a practice through drawing. Bonding with a roof beam describes a particular process through which I gradually meet the surroundings in tactile proximities. I discuss that this process suggests an interplay between emotive and material aspects of bonding. Evolving through a series of experiments of drawing and three-dimensional studies, this paper presents three sets of works: the drawing of the roof beam reveals a corporeal presence, preparatory bonding and drawing of the preparatory bonding no 1 . These works elaborate on this interplay by seeking embodied relations between materials, tools and techniques of drawing with regard to tactile proximities, suggesting embodied spatio-temporalities and in-between spaces. I discuss that each individual work reconfigures the space of the drawing, as well as the experience of drawing, engaging in a discussion on matter, materiality and corporeality. Through the experiments, I argue that this drawing practice offers a liminal space of possibilities within the artefactual works by which a drafter finds a way to approach space by desire for an embodied materiality. In relation, I suggest that the bonding process becomes tactical in a state of transience as it offers ways to relate oneself to a place by desire.