Really intriguing blend of concepts. My association with “landscape “ is twofold. Working with contractors who manipulate the land, I think of landscaping as a verb. Alternately as an artist I attempt to convey ( usually badly!) my emotions as I view any tiny slip of nature on canvas, paper, clay.
My experience of land “scape” is experiential rather than educated: I know what I feel rather than see, rather than what I can read. I know I as a living being, I am part of earth. How can I be otherwise? I also know as a contemporary human, I divorce myself from myself by working always indoors, by driving constantly, by eating foods out of season… you get the point. Growing up in NYC, my separation from landscapes was nearly total. I had cityscape.
I have no particular religion, but I lean towards animism. Perhaps that glacial boulder in Central Park, with heavy striations from glacial debris scraping over it endlessly, has every and the same right- place?- as I to be in the park, taking the sun, listening to NYC traffic and feeling the air on my skin.
You get it. Many assume that landscape and terrain are one and the same, when they are as different from one another as a prize steer and filet mignon. Animism was as heathen superstition by Abrahamic religions, when held a more sustainable regard for nature. Acquaint yourself with J.B. Jackson, who was a most influential voice in promoting a better understanding of landscape:https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300035810/discovering-the-vernacular-landscape/
TY! I was raised romantically catholic, and am painfully aware of the human-centric worldview of natural “resources” in most biblical writings. I consider it an achievement when I no longer clench my fists when listening to some of the Judaic -Christian tenets but try to sit with compassion and respect. But if ever I’m in a pub and the issue is raised, I become much less affable!! 😂 thanks for the recommendation! I live for these insights.
Really intriguing blend of concepts. My association with “landscape “ is twofold. Working with contractors who manipulate the land, I think of landscaping as a verb. Alternately as an artist I attempt to convey ( usually badly!) my emotions as I view any tiny slip of nature on canvas, paper, clay.
My experience of land “scape” is experiential rather than educated: I know what I feel rather than see, rather than what I can read. I know I as a living being, I am part of earth. How can I be otherwise? I also know as a contemporary human, I divorce myself from myself by working always indoors, by driving constantly, by eating foods out of season… you get the point. Growing up in NYC, my separation from landscapes was nearly total. I had cityscape.
I have no particular religion, but I lean towards animism. Perhaps that glacial boulder in Central Park, with heavy striations from glacial debris scraping over it endlessly, has every and the same right- place?- as I to be in the park, taking the sun, listening to NYC traffic and feeling the air on my skin.
You get it. Many assume that landscape and terrain are one and the same, when they are as different from one another as a prize steer and filet mignon. Animism was as heathen superstition by Abrahamic religions, when held a more sustainable regard for nature. Acquaint yourself with J.B. Jackson, who was a most influential voice in promoting a better understanding of landscape:https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300035810/discovering-the-vernacular-landscape/
TY! I was raised romantically catholic, and am painfully aware of the human-centric worldview of natural “resources” in most biblical writings. I consider it an achievement when I no longer clench my fists when listening to some of the Judaic -Christian tenets but try to sit with compassion and respect. But if ever I’m in a pub and the issue is raised, I become much less affable!! 😂 thanks for the recommendation! I live for these insights.
lol Roman Catholic… nothing romantic about it!