Between Absolute and Fluid Space: the Representation of the Oasis
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https://doi.org/10.26375/disegno.5.2019.19Keywords:
survey, landscape representation, vision, image, desertAbstract
At the edge of the desert, near the wetlands, the palm grew in small wild spots that reproduced by the action of the wind, forming a favorable environment for human settlement.
The landscape of the oasis is a composition of natural elements whose combination transforms the place into artificial nature; the water, the knowledge of agricultural techniques together with hard daily work overwrite to the arid deseret ground the traces of site configuration.
The oasis is a homogeneous system structured in the repetition of the elements of which it is composed and which generates a figurative unit given by the neatly arranged parts. A homogeneous plant mass that becomes a defined and balanced system.
The image of the oasis is built between the space of the desert, in which there is no presence of stratified signs but is configured as a natural absolute, and the fluid and symbolic space of vegetation that is defined as a figure in the surrounding background.
The representation begins by palm drawing, it is, in fact, the measure of the oasis and its representation contains sacredness and symbolis. It is also a point of union between the world of forms and the world of the spirit.
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