Chapter 6 Drawing and Being Drawn by the Hand: A Dance of Animacy Sylvia Kind Abstract This visual essay narrates events of drawing in the early childhood studio with four- and five-year-old children during the coronavirus pandemic. It considers what drawings do, how they draw us to attention, and how we were drawn to the hand. We draw the hand, not as an appendage or shape, but as the hand that holds, loves, leads, is touched as it touches, and has particular potency in these times of the coronavirus. It explores drawing as feeling-knowing and close attention, and drawing in movement, through touch, and with growing bodied attunement and immersive listening. We become increasingly attuned to what is animating this attention to hands, how the hand both expresses and hides identities, plays with multiple becom- ings, and how the drawn lines lead, interweave, and knot together in correspondence with various situations, speculations, and concerns. The events take shape as a dance of animacy. Keywords Early childhood · Drawing as event · Correspondence · Feeling-knowing · Coronavirus 6.1 The Hope of Drawing In the early childhood studio, drawing is not just about the moment of mark making when pen or pencil meets paper and an image begins to form. Drawing moves within the relation of things, in the midst of other happenings and inventions. Drawing entan- gles us as it moves throughout the studio and between children, weaving together various situations, speculations, and concerns. Arriving at an image (Kentridge, 2014) includes marks, materialities, animations, bodies in motion, stops and starts, intertex- tualities, wanderings and re-turnings, alterations, synergies, rhythms, and temporal- ities. Drawings arrive, wander, and lead, rendering a drawing more than a “picture” of something or a stable or direct re-presentation of what a child feels, thinks, or knows. I consider drawing always speculative and partial, working with a repertoire S. Kind (B) Capilano University, North Vancouver, BC, Canada e-mail: skind@capilanou.ca © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 L. Trafí-Prats and C. M. Schulte (eds.), New Images of Thought in the Study of Childhood Drawing, Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07143-0_6 103