For Tuesday September 18th

I know this only starts tomorrow, but I've thought of a tasty parallel already. Plus I'm curious to try out blogspot, since my brainstorming blog is a wordpress.

Thomas Davies, Chateau Richer Church

Yesterday we say this painting in class and spoke of the english settlers after the Traité de Paris. The romanticism makes me think alot of, well, cabin porn.

Have you heard of it? It's either not what you think it is, or for the simpler or more architecturally-minded, it's exactly what it sounds like. Personnally, I'm of the later. I've only been slightly obsessed by condensed living such as that put forward by the Tiny House movement, New Urbanism and artists like Andrea Zittel. But back to the cabin porn.

Both cabin porn enthusiasts and the english immigrant artists such as Thomas Davies idealize the landscape, romanticize it even. People (if present) are secondary to the images and dropped in as mere accessories at the most. Both seem to praise a time that is meant to be or to have been but that never quite was and as such, become timeless. It is the idea of the place that is praised, not the place itself. And perhaps more than anything else, nature, in all its greatness, takes the front seat. I hope you enjoy.