Trace--Part 2: Time is the soul of Trace

The concept of Time is fascinating to me and is the soul of Trace. The recording of time through movement is an act of tracing. How does movement record time? How does movement and time partner together in order to create an experience with implications on the future while denoting the past?

When I think of tracing the word journey comes to mind. Journey is a time-based word that discusses one's pathway in, with, or through (but not around) time. In time, gives a hierarchy of value and size in which time exists even when I or my journey do not. With time gives me the sense of partnering with time and also a choice to engage or disengage time--however, time always exists, or that I do not use it or consider it in my journey. Through time asserts that time is a force in which to be acted upon.

I feel that tracing codifies the journey and, in turn, passage of time. This passage of time can be a document of my existence. But how? 

The present always exists. But, the past may never be recorded and so it will not be remembered when the participants in the present, that created the past, do not exist in the future. It brings up the age-old question: "If a tree in the forest falls, but no one is around to hear it, did the tree really fall?"

There has to be a device in which to outline, denote, record, trace the present, so that there is a knowing or understanding in the future. So that there is a future. 

Trace--The beginning (choreo project)

the start of a new project

Trace.

–noun-
1. a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event;
vestige: traces of an advanced civilization among the ruins.

2. a barely discernible indication or evidence of some quantity, quality, characteristic,
expression, etc.: a trace of anger in his tone.

3. an extremely small amount of some chemical component: a trace of copper in its composition.

4. traces, the series of footprints left by an animal.

5. the track left by the passage of a person, animal, or object: the trace of her skates on the ice.

6. Meteorology. precipitation of less than 0.005 in. (0.127 mm).

7. a trail or path, esp. through wild or open territory, made by the passage of people, animals, or vehicles.

8. engram.

9. a tracing, drawing, or sketch of something.

10. a lightly drawn line, as the record drawn by a self-registering instrument.

11. Mathematics.
a. the intersection of two planes, or of a plane and a surface.
b. the sum of the elements along the principal diagonal of a square matrix.
c. the geometric locus of an equation.

12. the visible line or lines produced on the screen of a cathode-ray tube by the deflection of the electron beam.

13. Linguistics. (in generative grammar) a construct that is phonologically empty but serves to mark the place in the surface structure of a sentence from which a noun phrase has been moved by a transformational operation.

14. Obsolete. a footprint.
–verb (used with object)

15. to follow the footprints, track, or traces of.

16. to follow, make out, or determine the course or line of, esp. by going backward from the latest evidence, nearest existence, etc.: to trace one's ancestry to the Pilgrims.

17. to follow (footprints, evidence, the history or course of something, etc.).

18. to follow the course, development, or history of: to trace a political movement.

19. to ascertain by investigation; find out; discover: The police were unable to trace his whereabouts.

20. to draw (a line, outline, figure, etc.).

21. to make a plan, diagram, or map of.

22. to copy (a drawing, plan, etc.) by following the lines of the original on a superimposed transparent sheet.

23. to mark or ornament with lines, figures, etc.

24. to make an impression or imprinting of (a design, pattern, etc.).

25. (of a self-registering instrument) to print in a curved, broken, or wavy-lined manner.

26. to put down in writing.
–verb (used without object)

27. to go back in history, ancestry, or origin; date back in time: Her family traces back to Paul Revere.

28. to follow a course, trail, etc.; make one's way.

29. (of a self-registering instrument) to print a record in a curved, broken, or wavy-lined manner.
Origin: 1250–1300; late ME tracen, ME: to make one's way, proceed < MF tracier < VL *tractiāre, deriv. of L tractus, ptp. of trahere to draw, drag; (n.) ME: orig., way, course, line of footprints < OF, deriv. of tracier