a conjunction of art and science
There are no
landscapes in nature, only objects and living beings. As viewers, even when
looking at a real mountain, we take pleasure in the view, and we often imagine
that this is taking us closer to nature, when the opposite is nearer to the
truth. Humans therefore create
landscapes as a kind of
nostalgia for a closeness that we imagine we once had
with nature.
It is interesting that we have started taking this 'scape'
suffix and adding it to anything else that is visually pleasing or interesting;
a cityscape, a seascape, now even a thoughtscape and a bodyscape. These are
scapescapes, landscapes processed from previous landscapes. Over the
centuries, landscape has taken on a variety of meanings.
Landscapes without memory, Joan Fontcuberta
Llangollen: Looking south from the Horshoe Pass towards Eglwyseg Rocks on the upper left
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