Audrey Whisenhunt's Response

Audrey Whisenhunt

Challenging the Pictorial: Recent Landscape Practice by Julia Czerniak, addresses a contrast of various ideas as well as an overlying method to convey a message through the use of various tools; specifically, use of juxtaposing to deviate from “archaic” means of landscape architecture to a more modern framework.
The first step is to define the object of the work. This may be through simple processes such as identification of the object or common knowledge in a certain field to capture the image portrayed. Secondly, how does “the object or portrayal fit in” What is the meaning behind the object? Third, is how culture and history is used to tie the former two together.
Czerniak discusses each step briefly adding the most emphasis on picture versus process.
This method evaluates the utility of gathering a message from a painting (picture, drawing, sketch) in contrast to the portrayal of an actual landscape. The article does not favor the” 2D” pieces and does no lead the reader to believe they are sufficient to portray an efficient and intelligible landscape architecture model. An idea formed that some refer to as “landscape as a process” is one that may best capture the most efficient model thus far. As technology advanced more developed forms of the “process” was integrated, such as arial photography. A method preferred among landscape scholars and practitioners is the use of juxtaposing or juxtapositioning. As covered in this article, juxtaposing is useful in presenting multiple ideas on one plane to convey a more broad model not limited to previously used, inefficient 2D models. It is gathered that although the landscape process is probably most easy to understand and realize in 3D form, the evolution of different "non 3D forms" can be equally effective with some knowledge and skill on behalf of the viewer.