Issue #15 – The Best of MUSE 2018
The Best of MUSE 2018
CONTENTS:
• Essays
• Landscape
• Memoir
• Theory and Practice
• Sculpture
• More Essays
• Ideas
• Paperwork
NEWS & NOTES:
This one-year anniversary of MUSE is an opportunity to re-group and re-present my best work, for a fresh take. I hope you find favorites here, new and old.
Thanks to all of my friends, whose support made this first year of MUSE possible, and to my readers, who made it worthwhile. A special thanks to Bruce Wujcik, for his tireless technical, graphic, and production work, and another to Laura Hurwitz, who awakened me to the power of audio.
Cover art:
2018 MUSE Issue Headers – digital collage by Bruce Wujcik
The Best of MUSE 2018
The pieces selected for re-posting in this issue of MUSE present the ideas I most want to share, and best reflect me as a thinker, writer, designer, and artist. The work, mixed and matched from different issues, gains perspective and synergies from new contexts.
Essays
Isolations of Space and Time
Issue #7 – Isolations of Space and Time
Geologic time is rather impossible to appreciate. We live with a sense of time measured by a unique metronome, the human heart–one second for each beat. We borrow the cadences of planets and moons to capture days, months, and years. Our lifespans gauge larger periods, as do those of other living things.
Landscape
Memoir
In The Field
Issue #6 – In The Field
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I am asleep in the desert. I am dreaming this world and yet another. In which I am impossibly tall, resolutely female. My vision extends to the horizon. I see with an effortless, steady, dimensionless knowing. It is January and cold when the sun sets in the Mohave, so we retire to our separate tents early,
Theory and Practice
Funk It Up
Issue #5 – Community
The field of landscape architecture covers design at many scales: residential, park, campus and city, and region also, especially if you consider planning as design. (I do.) One focus of mine is community design, an aspect of urban design. My work concerns questions of participation: What is the appropriate level and kind of citizen involvement? What are appropriate roles for experts in a democracy?
Sculpture
Ideas
Parterre de Temps
Issue #9 – Heart, Head and Hands
This proposal is for a staging of Kurt Jooss’ 1932 dramatic dance The Green Table, as a partitioning not of the surface of the Earth, but rather of space through time. This is a modern interpretation of the 17th century French parterre, incorporating time as an element, and reinventing parterre as a dynamic rather than static form.
More Essays
When I was in Iceland with my husband we stayed mostly in the west and north. Bruce and I met few others as we traveled the island, taking in the small and the grand, the elegant and the banal, the human and the natural in luxurious, small steps. We went to the seaside town of Akranes on a windy chilly day in May,
