- Title
- Visualising the land: Ways of seeing surface and depth
- Creator
- Peters, Laraine
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Thesis; Masters
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/100854
- Identifier
- vital:10610
- Identifier
- http://library.federation.edu.au/record=b2679970
- Abstract
- Cyanobacteria and their stromatolites act as interesting foci, providing an effective lens through which to visualise land surface and spatial, temporal and sacred depth in landscape. Stromatolites date back some 3.5 billion years and form a thread through history, from deep time to the present. Believed to be the progenitors of all life forms on earth, the close connection of cyanobacteria to soil, water, air and sunlight mirrors similar relationships which exist between other descendant life forms and the land. The intimacy of these aerobes with the natural world can be conceived of as being a metaphor depicting a deep desire in the psyche of modern, technologically inclined humans to revisit a similar intimacy with the land. Some would recognise this as a Jungian, archetypal need to be connected with the earth. Cyanobacteria are a rich source of visual material. Deterministic fractal patterns are inherent in their diurnal microbial rhythm and stromatolite layer formation. The stromatolites provide interesting sculpted forms and mellifluous lines and patterns, to be visually explored in drawings. The interfaces between the macroscopic and the microscopic elements involved in this unique relationship with the land are fraught with artistic tension and visual drama, sufficient to inveigle any artist. Cyanobacteria, their aerobic cousin, A xylinum, and the stromatolites themselves act as microcosms which reflect the balance to be found throughout nature.; Master of Arts (Visual Arts)
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Cyanobacteria in Art; Visualisation
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