a question of framing
A landscape is a series of named locales, a set of relational places linked by paths, movements and narratives. (Tilley '94 conclusion)It's a long way from rural New South Wales to rural n/e France or more precisely the other way around but with the right light and a morning mist and possibly the squinting of eyes, a paddock with a haystack here could be there or there here. Though of course it would only be a trick of the mind and the light, the paddocks and the haystacks carry their own stories which would refuse to engage in such deception but they may be captured in their own elements, engaged in that moment of mist filled eye-squint, to mingle and enmesh with the viewers stories/ memories/ passages and possibly here or there or both be dabbed upon a canvas. Stolen from its place of Being, a haystack out of context with its reason. Later to travel the world, a representative of it's time, locale, people. (…) A journey along a path can be claimed to be a paradigmatic cultural act, since it is following in the steps inscribed by others whose steps have worn a conduit for movement which becomes the correct or 'best way to go. There is usually a good reason for following in a particular direction linking places in a serial
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National Gallery, South Wales, It's Artist, Katsushika Hokusai, Mt Fuji, Canberra Australia, , Encyclopedia Britannica, becoming memory, tilley '94, morning mist,
Approximate Word count = 1077
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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