#153: The Landscapes of Your Life

An exhibition of landscapes you have enjoyed during your lifetime.  

Each piece will have a title in which you could include a date, if you wish - especially if the landscape no longer exists (or has altered from the one you remember), or to give the landscape its position within your life.  It might be that you only experienced the landscape once, for example on holiday, or it might be one that you experienced regularly, perhaps while walking to work over a particular period in time.  

Its content, though, is merely the coordinates of the place to be to see the landscape and the direction to look in.  For example: 

Mote Park, Maidstone: View of Mote House and the North Downs beyond, 1998-2013. 51.26210676149764°N, 0.5480418031282992°W, Looking North. 

#148: The Greatest Landscape

Reality.

#094: Retirement (As some family members would have me believe; with a little addition of my own)

Oil on canvas.  A far-reaching landscape of sunshine, fields and trees.  On the horizon, though, are dark clouds, and darker lands

#057: The Negative Zone

Oil on canvas.  A person walks across an arctic landscape of nothing but ice stretching for miles, edged with tall mountains.  Dark clouds fill the sky, storms rage above the mountain range.  Behind the person walks an angry-looking polar bear who leans its head down to talk into their ear.  A cloud of breath emits from the bear’s mouth, slightly obscuring the head of the person.  The ice throughout the landscape is littered with their footprints.  

#041: The Art of Looking Through Windows

Every time you have time (especially if the window is new to you):

Stop and look through it.  Really look through it and at everything you can see.  Work from top to bottom and side to side, finding things, seeing things, noting things and build up the entire picture.  

Take time and take it all in.

Is there a story to be told, a film scene playing out; or is it a still (or a gif) landscape?

Try looking from different angles; try taking a few steps back or forwards, and look from further away or nearer: how does the view, how does the story, change?  

Try from the other side, if possible, if safe, and look in, instead of out (or vice versa), and repeat the process the other way round.  Don’t try looking into other peoples’ homes or offices, though, please.

If you cannot see through, if it’s only reflecting you, then treat it as a self-portrait. 

Or, if what you need is blankness, then just stand and stare, take in nothing of the scene and think.  This way lies true infinity.  

#025: Beauty (All at once)

The most beautiful person against the most beautiful landscape in the greatest artistic style.