I guess that is your job? And to do that you might have to change peoples' sense of aesthetics ie my mother loves rambling luscious cottage gardens, being European she doesn't can't see any beauty in native species. On the up side though, she is a great composter and mulcher.
Yep, that's my job. Thanks for coming along, Michelle! I'm sure we'll have some interesting conversations. I've never really thought that i might have to change people's sense of aesthetics...it's an interesting question I'll have to think about. I guess it's like painting, yeah? every creative act in some way challenges what comes before it. Perhaps new landscape projects offer new ways of seeing, broaden the aesthetic possibilities. I suppose we love the gardens of our childhoods, the landscapes we grow up in. I find it very difficult to come to terms with the verticallity and intentionality of the city because i grew up in Esperance, a landscape whose predominant feature it can't be denied is vast flatness. Agricultural Landscapes are 'in my blood' and i tend to look at the city through the lens of productivity. I can't see a patch of grass but imagine a grazing animal.
I guess that is your job? And to do that you might have to change peoples' sense of aesthetics ie my mother loves rambling luscious cottage gardens, being European she doesn't can't see any beauty in native species. On the up side though, she is a great composter and mulcher.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for coming along, Michelle! I'm sure we'll have some interesting conversations.
I've never really thought that i might have to change people's sense of aesthetics...it's an interesting question I'll have to think about. I guess it's like painting, yeah? every creative act in some way challenges what comes before it.
Perhaps new landscape projects offer new ways of seeing, broaden the aesthetic possibilities.
I suppose we love the gardens of our childhoods, the landscapes we grow up in. I find it very difficult to come to terms with the verticallity and intentionality of the city because i grew up in Esperance, a landscape whose predominant feature it can't be denied is vast flatness. Agricultural Landscapes are 'in my blood' and i tend to look at the city through the lens of productivity. I can't see a patch of grass but imagine a grazing animal.
Hey Robin! Glad you came!
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