BECOMING A LANDSCAPE
Vendredi, janvier 30th, 2009Ghillie suits are an intersection of landscape and clothing that allow soldiers to become their background – a cloaking of the body by environment. The derivation of ghillie, is the Scots Gaelic for « boy » – and its English usage specifically referred to servants assisting in deer stalking, hunting or fly fishing expeditions in the Scottish Highlands. Perhaps here servants become part of landscape design – a suit to disguise aspects of ownership, control and management. One might think of it as a picturesque device in the manner of a Ha-Ha – a stepped wall in the landscape which visually allowed the boundary of property to be erased suggesting ownership all the way to the horizon. Both allow the aristocrat to exist in an image of naturalness by hiding the means by which that natural-ness is constructed.
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MOSSENGER by ANNA GARFORTH
Moerenuma Park - Sapporo - Designed by Isamu Noguchi 
PARK AM GLEISDREIECK by LOIDL, BERLIN, GERMANY, 2011
PUBLIC FOUNTAIN by CHARLES GOLDMAN, 2006
