The landscape is the view we take in of the land and in this sense, we take something of the land, we take a measure of ownership, however tenuous. Landscape is an ideal, a construct, not real other than it exists in our visual consumption of the land. The land is more than landscape, or our response to it.
Our act of engaging with the land posits the land as external to ourselves: us and it. We are separate, yet this engagement seeks to unite us. We aim to connect and unify with it through observing a particular place, area, thing – this engagement becomes our destiny and our destination.
