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Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club [Jackson, John Brinckerhoff, American Space, 1972] Oil paint on carved wood, 2018
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Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club [Jackson, John Brinckerhoff, American Space, 1972] Oil paint on carved wood, 2018
. . . the geographer and the artist and the philosopher . . . are the most trustworthy custodians of the human tradition; for they seek to discover order within randomness, beauty within chaos, and the enduring aspirations of mankind behind blunders and failures.
J. B. Jackson "Landscape as Theater" in The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1980
Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.
J. B. Jackson