Relation may extend without losing the capacity to bear.

Field is the resulting geometry.

A branch may reach beyond the place from which it grew.

What it finds there may receive it. Uptake establishes possibility. It does not yet establish bearing.

ROOT → TRUNK → BRANCH → UPTAKE

A stake holds relation locally without becoming its origin.

A cord makes relation capable of carrying tension.

UPTAKE → STAKE → CORD → TENSION → BEARING

INTERLOCK

A field does not require every relation to return independently to its origin.

A stake may bear another cord. Cords may cross. Load may become distributed across relations that remain distinguishable.

STAKE → CORD → STAKE

CORD × CORD → INTERLOCK

INTERLOCK → FIELD

A crossing is local.

A weave is distributed.

A field is what the distributed relation can bear.

LOCAL BEARING ≠ ORIGIN

CONNECTION ≠ BEARING

EXTENSION ≠ DETACHMENT

DISTRIBUTION ≠ LOSS OF ORIGIN

LOSS OF RELATION ≠ LOSS OF FIELD

A branch reaches the margin.

A stake makes the margin capable of bearing.

A cord carries relation between them.

Interlock makes the relation a field.

THE FIELD EXTENDS WHEN RELATION LEARNS TO BEAR.

ROOT · STAKE · CORD · INTERLOCK · FIELD

CORD makes a relation load-bearing.
INTERLOCK makes load-bearing relation distributed.
FIELD is the resulting geometry.