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Landscape and garden interpretation

by Tom Turner @ 6:11 am April 10, 2009 -- Filed under: Garden Visiting, Historic garden restoration, Landscape Architecture   

Is this how we understand landscapes and gardens, natural and designed: through a friend’s camera reflected in our own glasses?sunglasses-flickr-cc-ducktourer-1187959439_dd7f0e0b7a_oa-a

Image courtesy Mark Hodges.

4 Comments »

  1. Interesting question.

    Comment by Christine — April 14, 2009 @ 2:46 am

  2. This relates to your previous feed on Landscape as art or music. The need for interpretation begs the question as to the need for an audience too. I like Alan Weisman’s image ‘The World Without Us’ - suggesting that the at many levels the landscape has no need of audience or conductor.

    Comment by Marian — April 15, 2009 @ 11:29 am

  3. (1) I think it was Weisman I heard say on the radio that ‘all species become extinct’
    (2) I drilled into a 700 million year old mudstone yesterday and, looking at the mud dust, thought that I was putting it back to how it used to be
    (3) Think about 1 tree in a hectare of grassland. If it was planted by man it is completely different to a self-sown tree, even if they are physically idendical: so I believe the audience/conductor DOES matter

    Comment by Tom Turner — April 15, 2009 @ 6:46 pm

  4. Very interesting question.

    Comment by Christine — April 21, 2009 @ 5:30 am

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