Desire Paths is a drawing and contemplation system housed in a 64-card deck and accompanying index. Each card introduces a prompt within four categories; scaffolding, texture, force and disruption - offering gestural and qualitative directives that shape how marks are made and how they interact. Cards can be used individually or combined to generate unexpected relations between them.
Named after the informal paths worn into grass through repeated footsteps, Desire Paths treats drawing as a way of exercising attention. The project emerged during a year living in Mexico City, where drawing became a daily method for metabolising urban density. Through repetition, certain gestures began to recur, gradually forming an informal alphabet of marks.
Each card in the index contains an action alongside a set of leads and detours - associations that open the prompt outward.
What does a puncture feel like in a conversation?
How might a single shape evolve when directed by vigor or grace?
Rather than instructing what to draw, Desire Paths provides a loose structure for experimentation. Through repetition, modulation and disruption it invites movement beyond habitual patterns of making and explores drawing as a way of thinking across registers of the body before the mind.