VIOLENCE UPON SPACE
In attempt to qualify the everyday stuff around us, we have become dependent upon the photographic image to
represent our technological and cultural achievements. This suggests that collectively we acquiesce to the role
of the operator and subjugate landscape to that of object. We have become accustomed to violating landscape
through the framing of the camera. Simultaneously, we exploit landscape through architecture and war, by
means required for land-use, site work, and geographic domination. This development is malignant, rendered
as a slow moving violation, anesthetized to the point of banality. Landscape is living simulacrum, materialized
by Architecture into latent form. The problem is, however, that we tend not to see it. We need a new device for
landscape projection.
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