Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals (Rebecca Solnit).[1] In 1967 the American poet A.R. Ammons […]
Monthly Archives: March 2014
The European Landscape Convention defines landscape as ‘An area as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors’ (Council of Europe, 2000). That it is described in terms of human perception is no surprise, perhaps, given that even the word landscape derives from landscape painting, […]