Today I presented my research paper to the rest of the group and led a discussion about it (although I don't think I led the discussion very well).
I also asked everyone to complete a Miro board with anything that stood out to them. That was a really good idea as I'm fascinated by what they wrote:
Possibly place is always present in a landscape if you know that landscape
Context of the landscape builds the place, people, experience, environment. There is no place without at least one of these things
When someone says the word "landscape" I immediately think of a 3D sculptural space, the shapes, the angles, the hardness of the rocks or buildings
We talked about how an image might dominate the reading of place, and how images that depict place may be similar in time due to shared experience or interpretation and how this becomes a 'picture' later
Cezannes use of space and time in his painting
Place and home as something that can disappear completely
Firing of the same cells in the brain when you visit a certain place
Depending on your memories and the people within those memories
Artefacts having meaning... ties in with something I have been working on... the full realism of an object.
Familiarity/memory breeds place. Making an image more in line with your memory of a place rather than the 1:1 image of it
Place is made - through deep knowledge and experience
Images of places are less (don't quite understand this one...maybe they stopped halfway through?)
Places are locations that are not necessarily on the 'map' but rather have relations to your past
Place cells in the hippocampus and mapping places - fascinating!
Really interesting notion of layering/palimpsest
There's so much to digest here!
The comments that stand out to me immediately are that home can disappear completely... I hadn't really thought of it like that before, but it's very true. The idea of an image dominating the reading of a place and the inter-play between the image and the landscape is very interesting. I love the very physical description someone gave of their reaction to the word 'landscape'. The meaning attached to artefacts is also very pertinent.
I feel like there's so much more I can pull out of this to give me inspiration. I need to re-watch the recording of the discussion and record this here too.