Something that struck me in particular about this reading was the distinction between a drawing and a model of lines. Before reading this, I never thought of drawing and digital images/drawing as different; the two might have occupied different spaces entirely, but I would have still called something from #drawing on Instagram a drawing. Reading this made me reevaluate how drawing relates to materiality. So I looked up the etymology of ‘draw.’
Apparently it traces back to draught/draft and is supposed to indicate a friction/pulling action.
This makes sense if we were to go back to the examples Lostritto included in the reading – an eraser might be able to erase marks but the force it takes to remove marks also creates marks. The materiality of a drawing then has an additional temporal aspect that a digital counterpart lacks; erasing a digital line leaves no trace.