Lines of Desire 1351 60 x 72" Oil/Cold wax on canvas © 2013 Janice Mason Steeves I am interested in paths. Trails that emerge from human or animal footfall are called Lines of Desire. It is the name that landscape architects give to those spontaneous narrow paths-the shortcuts- that people make across fields, or woodlands that do not follow the paved walkways. Sometimes called social pathways, they have been created over time by people repeatedly walking the same track. I 'm calling my new body of work, Lines of Desire to indicate the path that I am travelling throughout this series and the route I have travelled to get to this work. It is the same title I gave to an earlier body of work. I wanted to revisit the idea. My work has always been influenced by the idea of place-whether it be the sacred places/pilgrimage sites that have drawn me to various countries, the prairies where I grew up, the land I live on now, or ...