Marking on the land

I liked Collin's lecture yesterday. It was almost cutting a cross section through Nature-Culture relationship through medium of Land art. As he said, through design we mark the earth too, which erodes over time with us.

DoubleNegative by Michael Heizer

Roden crater by James Turrrell

Observatory by Robert Morris

Walking a Line in Peru 1972 by Richard Long

Brazil by J R

The folds, the ridges, the turns, the valleys…

I was just seeing the images I have collected of Istanbul, and there was something which tied all of them together. The images captured folds of the ground, the valleys, the ridges, the hills,the ravines, the water streams, catchments and sea edges, all of them submerged in the man-made cityscape. They are the first layer of the Urban Palimpsest on which we begin marking our presence, our being. They interest me as they erode with their own time and our everyday lives forming something unusual. They change over time and we change them to make them part of our lives. I want to search for them in Istanbul. To frame it in bulky words, I am interested in exploring varying nature-culture relationship in Istanbul.