Spacial Awareness

We exist in space and whilst we all see in three dimensions, many of us only imagine in two. The horizontal arc, both length and breadth is easy but from meridian to azimuth is harder. To design in open space with an understanding of its limits or boundaries takes practice and training. The spirit of place, its bigness or smallness, is appreciated by light and shade. It is only by the reflection of light that we see anything at all. Through our imagination we can manipulate space to create an illusion of things being bigger or smaller. This can be translated into a landscape.

Before the Middle Ages, painters generally depicted scenes in two dimensions and only through the Reformation did we see perspective developed to give depth to the landscape. This development of the minds eye continues and the modern painter can manipulate the canvas to give an illusion of unreality.

So with the modern landscape designer; the wilderness can be tamed into settings and adjacencies that transform the space in which we live.

This imagination can go beyond the layers we see to those we don't. Outer space has been brought to us through photographs of exploration in the Heavens, and probes into the Earth show us the layers that create our topography and bear our cultivation. This fuels the imagination of the modern designer who can artificially modify light, bring subterranean materials to the surface and create special features never before seen on Earth.

We can create an ambience around our personal space that better places us in our locality and gives us a singularity that defines us from others.