In “The Beholding Eye,” D.W. Meinig discusses how the way a landscape is viewed is not simple or even singular. He offers nine different “lenses” through which a landscape can be seen and/or interpreted: landscape as nature, habitat, artifact, system, problem, wealth, ideology, history, and place. To manipulate the common adage, “landscape is in the eye of the beholder.” I found this article informative as a way to properly read and understand a landscape. During inventory and analysis it would be beneficial to use each of these categories as a reference list to gather data. One category in particular that I found interesting was to view landscape as an ideology. It calls for an understanding of the landscape’s cultural features and history and a rejection of “beautification” which simply becomes a cosmetic mask that does not address underlying issues that need to be addressed.
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I agree that analyzing the site by aspects of ideology could be especially valuable for this studio. The complex system of cultural and ecological features at Poverty Point are going to be difficult to deal with, so introducing a new focus may help us make decisions.
I would have never chosen the word "ideology" when describing a landscape until you gave me an understanding of the article. In sense, it reads as if we are worshipping the landscape, but in a better sense we are simply respecting it. Nature has a story, and as Andrew stated, it will be a difficult tasks to keep hold of the story at Poverty Point, or at any Indian Mound.
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