Might be better understood as

Does "drawing might actually be better understood as writing” in the text below mean 1. it would be better to understand drawing as writing, or 2. drawing is understood more as writing?

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This aligns nicely with Hiller’s assertion that in relation to the images, artefacts and maps of dreams from other societies, ‘“drawing” might actually be better understood as “writing” in the sense that the ancient Greeks had only one word for what we divide into two ideas, pertaining separately to images and to words’ (Art and Psychoanalysis by Maria Walsh).