'Landscapes', Wapke Feenstra (ENG)
introduction text in the book “A stay in the country”, published by Wapke Feenstra & myvillages.org, Rotterdam 2003
“The declamation of Frisian poetry is the first public cultural moment I remember. The poems were mainly about the surrounding landscape and everyday anecdotes. Practising the verses, I expressed what I saw in someone else’s words. This made me really see the landscape. For the rest, I grew up not knowing that, in art historical terms, landscape is a painting genre. A genre that can channel indefinable feelings and narrate our relationship to our environment. Now that I live in a neighbourhood where different cultures co-exist (Bloemhof, Rotterdam), I often think about landscape. It’s all around me, but somehow just out of my reach. The media tells me where I am. Documentaries about my neighbourhood (national and regional) seem able to channel indefinable feelings. That scares me. I’d rather look myself.”
In this book three people describe their environment.
introduction text in the book “A stay in the country”, published by Wapke Feenstra & myvillages.org, Rotterdam 2003
“The declamation of Frisian poetry is the first public cultural moment I remember. The poems were mainly about the surrounding landscape and everyday anecdotes. Practising the verses, I expressed what I saw in someone else’s words. This made me really see the landscape. For the rest, I grew up not knowing that, in art historical terms, landscape is a painting genre. A genre that can channel indefinable feelings and narrate our relationship to our environment. Now that I live in a neighbourhood where different cultures co-exist (Bloemhof, Rotterdam), I often think about landscape. It’s all around me, but somehow just out of my reach. The media tells me where I am. Documentaries about my neighbourhood (national and regional) seem able to channel indefinable feelings. That scares me. I’d rather look myself.”
In this book three people describe their environment.
