THE ART OF TOUCHING THE GROUND ______

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

great thinking comes out of discussion

Charles Waldheim_

NUANCED APPROACH

John Davids_

…the 270 million bombs both "trampled" the land and then indeed prevented the land from further colonial exploitation afterward…

(*back to my ‘the art of touching the ground’/the bombs are protecting the land in an irony way)

…How much cleaning/mining you allow will be your critique of both the past abuses and the abuse inherent in raw, unmitigated colonial/capitalist exploitation

Brian Goldstein_

…making the gold companies into your "landscape architects"

(*the digging and reconstructing idea)

Don't necessarily take the Australians' presence as a given--work with it… (maybe) there is no one else who can do it and you must work around them, but your goal is to make their presence positive

Kelly Doran and Pierre Belanger_

Ground and aerial

Social culture value

More than REMEDY

Gold Buddha

Layers (Soil condition, water)

Grading the land

Gridding the land

other forces shaping the landscape (Weathering)

critic of the Infinite search of pattern

improve current logic / thinking

rethinking about waste