Landscape = Food For Thought

-Smout Allen, "Geofluidic Landscape"

"We have an interest in landscape when we feel the need to stretch our eyes. Along with this common understanding- and probably because of it- the term landscape enjoys a comprehensive career as a metaphor... Every chaotic totality is assembled into a unity as soon as it is labeled a landscape. The term 'urban landscape' sheds a redeeming glow upon even the most dejected neighborhood; 'industrial landscape' transforms any romping ground for the ravages of industry into an object of aesthetic sensibility." -Jorgen Dehs

Our most fundamental relation to the gigantic is articulated in our relation to landscape, our immediate and lived relation to nature as it 'surrounds' us... we move through the landscape; it does not move through us. This relation to the landscape is expressed most often through an abstract project of the body upon the natural world. Consequently, both the miniature and the gigantic may be described through metaphors of containment- the miniature as contained, the gigantic as the container." -Susan Stewart


I don't even necessarily agree with all of it point for point, but it's provoking.