| The Landscape |

How often do we think about the landscape as a thing, a thing of relevance and utility? Historically we decided that we need a certain distance from the natural, the raw and wild, we seem to become uneasy if we spend too much time in it, direct contact with it appears to only be remedied by constant movement, we become nomads searching for food and temporary shelter, once we conquer food production our paranoia kicks in, we develop architecture as a way to ease our anxious minds, that’s when the machine appears, we become reactionary, we see a problem, we solve it, input output, we don’t hold, ping pong, ping pong. Goals are gods, we open our eyes feeling confused, unfocused, angry, sick, we do the only thing we know how to do, create, create  solutions to problems we unwittingly manufactured, pills, cartoons, sports, not enough, ai will solve our problem, we are fading, panic, integrate, who am I?, I need a new blender, great, an add for a blender, o no I’m back, I can’t breath, a machine doesn’t need to breath, I need to actually become one…

 

We pulled away from the landscape thinking it was the root of our fear and tension. Maybe we crave the freedom, maybe we miss the wind and birds, there’s no answer when the wrong question is asked.