The ideas surveyed in this work are of an anthropological matter, represented through the use of abstract symbolism. By considering the universality of the hand drawn straight line allows for interpretations which can date back to imaginings of Palaeolithic age peoples who were beginning to discover the way a line could be used to visually articulate human thought. By taking the ideas of the line back to the time of Palaeolithic mythology, the line is able to transcend history, time and a plurality of cultures, where today, its relevance is continued.

Through this idea, the hand drawn straight line works as a type of bridge that connects the present to a Palaeolithic age when humans were discovering visual languages, however, this is not a moment that could ever be pinpointed, so it remains mythologised. Therefore, the connection to the scratching and painting of rocks done some tens of thousands of years ago is abstracted over time, developing a void in our current understanding of its original birth. The bridge works as a type of silent path; the access remains as the ideas of visual languages through the use and development of line has continued and passed on through generations of people, while the path also carries a silence created from the years past.