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| Title: | The Distance of Horizon |
| Authors: | Meier, Catherine |
| Keywords: | Mongolia
Art
Steppe
American Landscape
Openness
Open Space
The Great Plains
Animation
Memory
Navigation
Landscape
Place Names
Human Geography
The Sublime
Drawing
Vastness
Nature
Plains |
| Issue Date: | Aug-2009 |
| Abstract: | “Open Space” is a phrase that describes both an idea and a particular juxtaposition
of earth and sky, a state of mind and a state of being. This work addresses several
questions about this idea. How is open space experienced, particularly in landscapes such
as The Great Plains or the Mongolian steppe? How can the distance between the external,
physical landscape of the earth and the internal, intricate landscape of the human mind be
understood? How can this understanding be expressed in visual artistic form? How can
the personal experience of the artist that is implicitly tied to space, time, place, and scale
be recreated and extended so that others can experience it?
Personal experiences and memories of growing up in Nebraska, working as a
truck driver on The Great Plains, and a journey to the Mongolian steppe are all explored
in this work. The reaction to both interior and exterior open space and landscape are
investigated with these personal narratives as the starting point. It is shown how the
openness of landscapes can cause one to travel to the smallest and most segmented of
places, and then journey back out again. This work also presents other artist’s responses
to openness and vastness. It addresses how the simplicity and complexity of openness as
experienced in landscape can be expressed visually and extended from the personal to the
universal. |
| Appears in Collections: | Dissertations and Theses (Ph.D. and Master's)
Art and Design, School of (A&D)
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