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Reflections about the Landscape

Summary/Abstract: How do we know whether something that is located within the horizon of our perception is a landscape and not an interior, a stage? What decides that one sort of space is a landscape and another is not? After all, every landscape can be conventionally described as the interior of another, wider landscape. The difference is determined by the attitude of the observer who prefers either open or closed space. (…) A landscape is an infinitely diverse interpretation of space. Space defines itself, and this is the reason why it ‘knows’ all the places and directions within itself. Looking at a landscape, despite the fact that it brings the latter into being, always seems to the observer to be secondary in relation to space endowed with self-knowledge.

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