ABSTRACT
The Western-elitist-notion of landscape also creates a sense of things being ‘in place’. The emphasis is on a visual ’scape in which the observer stands back from the thing observed. But, even within this limited understanding of landscape, stasis is an illusion. Whether painting or view, movement is required before the correct vantage point is achieved. Landscapes contain the traces of past activities, and people select the stories they tell, the memories and histories they evoke, the interpretative narratives that they weave, to further their activities in the present-future. Recent phenomenological approaches focus on a being-in-the-world attachment to place and landscape. By moving along familiar paths, winding memories and stories around places, people create a sense of self and belonging.
