Archaeology of a Landscape 

Format:

• Vertical = grandiosity
• Landscape = extensive panoramic vision and multi-temporal

Lights:

• Black-white = present – past, day – night, reality – dream, real – imaginary.

Line:

• Simple = Essence
• Multiple = Values (real, chromatic, emotive, temporary)
• Chaotic = Dreamlike
• Thick = Affirmation
• Thin = Suggestive
• Continuous = Present
• Dashed = Past

Colour – Patches of colour:

• Vibrant = Reality
• Blended = Memory
• Bright = Sentiments, profound sensations
• Absence of colour = Perception of the sediments left by passage of time in the landscape.
• Neat patch = The I, the present, the reality
• Diffused patch = Fading memory, times past
• Half tints = Distance – depth in time, in space, in memory, in the sentiments.

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