ABSTRACT
Art and landscape share common ground in the temporal and in their profound connection with making as a way of deriving meaning. The agencies of perception, recollection, and imagination become the elements of insight and hypothesis through which we can come to terms with and meaningfully alter landscape's course. The landscape installation, as a subset of landscape-making which can simultaneously be considered art, provides a vehicle for not only intervening in the natural world but for trying our hand at the language of impermanence that fundamentally defines the processes of the natural world. As an impermanent medium rooted in the sublime allure of the natural world, the landscape installation provides an opportunity to imagine the possible through a critical if temporary provocation. In the Western imagination, the landscape has historically aligned itself with an idyllic vision of the natural world. The landscape has an inherent power to be nature while re-presenting nature.
