Landscape is a selecting-out from the field in its emergence, a place that is between the forest and the trees. Landscape is a proposition for perspective within the field, the briefest moment in which the subject has not yet been taken up. In this moment, landscape presents itself as aesthesis with the aim of knowing, an invitation to participate in a wide field of relations, and to world-with. In a landscape, the percipient might forget themselves for a moment, or may not have come to frame themselves in opposition to a place. A landscape is the just-before act of landing, the topological in transition to the perspectival.
Speculative Fieldnote
By Blair Bainbridge
"I don’t want to go to the moon. I want to stay with the earth. The worked earth. With the manmade craters, the dark monuments to negative futures always already here."
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The Water Moves Too Quickly
By Garrett Lockhart
"We can see all the water now, it is too lively"
The Water Chronicles
By Tricia Toso
"Is it cynical or naive, or perhaps ironic (?) to discuss the impending apocalypse of climate change, while hydrating from bottled water?"
Enterprising Indigeneity
By Joël Laforest
"The Kahnawake have used the available resources to create conditions that work for them. What is distinctive about their approach, however, is the collective enterprise of their nation: rather than being subjected to market forces and the state on an atomized individual level, their political and organizational capacity allows them to advocate for a general interest."
Mine Flows
By Max Symuleski
"Perception as a deprivation of action and reaction brings to the mind the desolate, but exquisite, surface structures of the empty 'box' or 'lattice'"
Speculations on Making (Inverted) Mountains
By Natalie P. Koerner
"I looked at the mounds of excavated rock, the plateaus of even, grey, scattered rock, the endless views across huge water basins that resemble marshlands or the site of ebb, of pre-tsunami, pre-epic-arrival. Because of the superhuman, supra -human scale, I thought of Gods and the mountainous architectures that have been built for them."
Exit, Moon
By Maya Indira Ganesh
"Some people had the option of leaving. Those people who don’t have to take care of anyone else, or anything else. Who feel like they can sever their connections and move on to the next thing. Some times this is survival. Some times it is escape, it is exit."