I felt very connected in spirit to these spaces as I was walking through them. I enjoyed seeing man's impact on the landscape, through buildings, trash and art, and nature's impact on man's artifacts, through weathering and vegetation. I find it a beautiful reciprocal relationship, we use the land to gather the essentials of life and the land uses us to continue the process of life. The true nature of Nature to me seems to give life to life.
I personally don't like static spaces, they feel stale, unnatural and controlled. I feel like spaces need to be changing and evolving in order to be alive. A good space is a continuous performance art. I believe that nature can take something made by man that's bad and make it good and if something's already good then it just becomes better. With time comes experience and knowledge and with age comes wisdom and beauty. I don't know, I guess I feel most comfortable, secure and alive when I'm within a “good” and pure space (a space that doesn’t hide its true function from its true context).
Looking at those images, it is interesting to see the similarities between the "forgotten" spaces. It is almost like no one cares about them; as far as what they look like physically or the memory they hold within them. Are the places that end up "forgotten" then become a red flag that they shouldn't be the places that are maintained?
ReplyDeleteI think that it becomes this process of the forgotten and neglected that we end up seeing the true side of place in the landscape. I look at those pictures and try to imagine a child and what that child would be doing in that space. Whether or not he/she is playing with friends or is all alone. When the truth of the matter is we can never really understand why places get neglected and abandoned.
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