Late at night while I listen to Laurie Brown’s Signal on CBC I draw, madly, hundreds of lines on my ipad. As a distracting activity. Half of the lines are drawn perpendicular to the other half and a grid is formed, a simple matrix, a virtual weave. During the process I gradually and in very small increments change the thickness of the line from in 1/4 mm and up to 3,5 mm. For each drawing, and sometimes within one drawing, I change the hue [colour] of the line. I start with a thin, dark line and move slowly to thicker lines and lighter shades of he same hue. I use my left index finger to draw on the smooth, translucent and warm screen of my ipad, effortlessly laying down, over-writing layers upon layers. Slowly the spaces between the lines in the grid vanish. I continue. I think only about the process, stopping only to shift hue, intensity and thickness of the line. At one point my eyes close and my finger continues to draw. When ‘the drawing  stops’ I use the Play-back function in the Brushes App to watch the drawing ‘draw itself’ from beginning to end, which allows me to follow the lines without drawing them. I think about the lines and I repeat the same pattern in my mind’s eye. A pointless activity suddenly appears rational and methodical. There is no resistance when my index finger that draws or when the drawing Plays back. There is only swift and gentle process.