Drawing is a Movement Language

Drawing is a movement language, sustained in trace.

Drawing is one of our oldest languages. Long before words, there was the trace: a hand pressed into pigment, a finger dragged across stone, a mark etched into clay. These were not decorations but orientation—evidence of relation between body, ground, and time.

This podcast holds drawing in that lineage. Not as product or image, but as method. Every mark begins in motion—breath carried into gesture, weight pressed into line. What remains is evidence of presence, a residue of relation.

Each week, we return to the same ground: body, breath, movement, and mark. From there, we explore how drawing functions as method, as archive, as language. What emerges is not resolution but continuity—gestures that register presence, transitions traced in time, marks that remain as evidence of being.

In this episode:

• Why drawing is a movement language older than words
• How body, breath, movement, and mark form the spine of practice
• What it means to build continuity through trace

Want more than listening?

At ⁠eileencubbage.com⁠ you’ll find The Core Sequence —a live, 60-minute drawing practice built on body, breath, movement, and mark, and SHIFT, a 4-week immersion to sustain a deeper practice. Return through the mark.

Keep drawing,

Eileen

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