Describe what you see here:
We do not see important clues.
"there are no colors in the world, only electromagnetic waves of many frequencies."
To many people the following description will seem implausible, at best, and false on its face, at worst:
"the patient in the experiment see sees and remembers one world at certain times and a completely different world at other times."
p. 64, Israel Rosenfield & Edward Ziff, The New York Review of Books, June 26, 2008."How the Mind Works: Revelations."
Photographic images of 19th Century America
Perspective is related to scale drawings that emerged in the Renaissance
Perspective in painting was introduced and became widespread in the Late Renaissance.
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Sheep pasture in Williamsburg, Virginia.
As Richard Wilbur, the poet, asks,
"But shall we not soon be forced
to recoup, and recover a view of nature which is not purely exploitive?"
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He asks this question and examines a deep sense of loss that he detects in an erosion of our language.
"The common language of rural topography --that vocabulary of
dell, swale, coppice and coomb which Hardy used so well-- has
fallen into disuse, so that we are relatively speechless before the landscape."
African savanna landscape in the Kalahari desert of Botswana.
In this course we ask the same question really in many guises. And, I think, that to get really serious about the matter of what is or is not exploitive you need to ask if visual clues are involved in what you think is exploitive with respect to our surroundings, your experiences and our common landscape.
Richard Wilbur , as an important American poet, comments that:
"we are now obliged to make choices which will reconcile us with a natural system of which we are only a part, and I do not doubt that the process will bring not only a fresh sense of how nature may be used, but also of what it is."
exploitive is derived from the word to exploit (verb), meaning:
Place he defines as:
"a place being a fusion of human and natural order, and
a peculiar window on the whole."
Terms
Coomb, a short valley or hollow on a hillside or coastline. • Geology a dry valley in a limestone or chalk escarpment. ORIGIN Old English cumb, occurring in charters in the names of places in southern England, many of which survive; of Celtic origin, related to cwm . The current general use dates from the late 16th century coombe (also coombe).
Coppice, an area of woodland in which the trees or shrubs are, or formerly were, periodically cut back to ground level to stimulate growth and provide firewood or timber. verb [ trans. ] cut back (a tree or shrub) to ground level periodically to stimulate growth : [as adj. ] ( coppiced) coppiced timber. ORIGIN late Middle English : from Old French copeiz, based on medieval Latin colpus ‘a blow’. Compare with copse.
Dale, a valley, esp. a broad one. ORIGIN Old English dæl, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse dalr, Dutch dal, and German Tal, also to dell.
Dell, a small valley, usually among trees : lush green valleys and wooded dells. ORIGIN Old English , of Germanic origin; related to Dutch del and German dialect Telle, also to dale .
Glade, an open space in a forest. ORIGIN late Middle English : of unknown origin; perhaps related to glad or gleam , with reference to the comparative brightness of a clearing (obsolete senses of glade include [a gleam of light] and [a bright space between clouds] ).
Glen, a narrow valley. ORIGIN late Middle English : from Scottish Gaelic and Irish gleann (earlier glenn).
Swale, a low or hollow place, esp. a marshy depression between ridges. ORIGIN early 16th cent.: British, of unknown origin.
Vale, a valley poetically described.
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Sensing and desscribing a pattern:
This is the impact of private farming in the foothills
of the Himalayan Mountains:
Now consider this set of
questions:
With these intersections in mind, do you see any shapes in the above design?
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What geometrical shapes did you see?
In these samples
describe what you see.
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Unseen qualities of physical experience:
"staircase" of the material world
A a small right triangle pointing down the page
B a large right triangle resting on its short base
X a hexagon, or six even-sided figure
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