2017 PUBLIC/ CHURCH SOUTH HARBOUR

The origin - growing - living - the resurrected - the line between heaven and earth - the present - the first space - the clearing - the framing - the meaningful - the heavenly - the vertical - the repetition - the sound - the light - the twilight - THE PLACE.

”BEING THE PRIMARY NATURAL ”THINGS”, ROCKS, VEGETATION AND WATER MAKE A PLACE MEANINGFUL OR SACRED, TO USE THE TERM OF MIRCEA MLIADE. HE WRITES:”THE MOST PRIMITIVE OF THE ”SACRED PLACES” WE KNOW OF CONSTITUTED A MICROCOSM: A LANDSCAPE OF STONES, WATER AND TREES.” MOREOVER HE POINTS OUT THAT ”SUCH PLACES ARE NEVER CHOSEN BY MAN, THEY ARE MERELY DISCOVERED BY HIM; IN OTHER WORDS THE SACRED PLACE IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER REVEALS ITSELF TO HIM” IN MANS UNDERSTANDING OF NATURE WE THUS RECOGNIZE THE ORIGIN OF THE CONCEPT OF SPACE AS A SYSTEM OF PLACES. ONLY A SYSTEM OF MEANINGFUL PLACES MAKES A TRULY HUMAN LIFE POSSIBLE”.

Quote from Genius Logi by Christian Norberg-Schulz, chapter 2, Natural Place.