Utopias - 3

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" Sometimes we find ourselves in the presence of a form that guides and encloses our earliest dreams. For a painter a tree is composed in its roundness. But a poet continues that dream from higher up. He knows that when a thing becomes isolated, it becomes round, assumes a figure of being that is concentrated upon itself. In Rilke's Poèmes francais, this is how the walnut tree lives and commands attention. Here, again around a lone tree, which is the centre of a world, the dome of the sky becomes round, in accordance with the rule of cosmic poetry."

     Gaston Bachelard  -  the Phenomenology of Roundness  - 
                      the Poetics of Space  ( 1958)

Utopias - 1

If Land Art marks an end to the history of landscape art, it seems fitting that many of the constructions that characterise that 'ultimate' form are in desert locations (the antithesis of pastoralism) such as Arizona in the United States.

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