Reconstructing Geologies
Overview
After a few hours in Arches National Park, the sublime experience of scale slowly exposes a sublime experience of time. This happens with a shift of focus: moving from the overall figural forms to the striations of texture and color on their surfaces. Slowly, one feels a kind of reverse vertigo, like walking on an ocean floor, as one realizes that the ground plane used to hover hundreds of meters above one’s head, and that the hulking figures and masses of rock that obstruct your passage are continuously falling ever so slowly in a hundreds-of-millions-of-years-long process of weathering and erosion.
Like a puzzle scattered on a table, relations appear that induce visitors to imagine the evidence in their original position.
Examining the elements visible in a contemporary landscape, attempt to reconstruct their primordial positions. You may use photographs, drawings, or another medium of your choice.
Instructions
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Relevant Tutorials
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Required Reading:
Marta Braun, Picturing Time, Chapter 1.
Optional Reading:
Jacques Rancière, The Time of Landscape, 000-000.
Other References:
Marta Braun, Picturing Time, Chapter 1.