Across vs through – if we had a boundary around us, relations would go across our outer plane/surface. But we are not ‘circles’ so it goes through us, and likewise we go through other things as well instead.
I think of it as going through one of those aquarium tunnels and being able to see so many fish around us from different perspectives (side, bottom, top views, and moving in all different ways) – we are going through their ‘domain of entanglement’.
Compare that experience to looking at fish standing outside of the tank looking in from the top – simply viewing from across the edge of their habitat.
I think Ingold argues that we can’t look at and describe life from the outside looking in. It has to be described from the inside because that is where we are at; we are at the centre of the whole mesh of all our relations and we don’t stop moving or forming more ‘lines’.
So putting that to a media perspective, what’s an example of a work that goes through a particular issue(?) or thing instead of across it? Is there a form of media that can do this difficult task of illustrating or mapping out our complex and intricate entanglements?