Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Punctuation

Brown reportedly likened his design process to writing a text and punctuating it. I think this is going to be important for me - as the man himself did not write books about his work we have to pick up what crumbs of insight we have! I need to focus on creating some punctuation marks for Woodbury Hill. The reference is in 'Capability Brown and the Eighteenth Century Landscape' by Roger Turner.

I have also used 'Capability Brown, the story of a master gardener' by Thomas Hinde, and 'Capability Brown' by Dorothy Stroud, which has a black and white plate of Brown's 1778 plan for Moccas.

For contemporary inspiration I have been looking at the work of the artist James Turrell at jamesturrell.com. I think that the opportunities to view the sky at Moccas are quite special. I also see that it is in a 'dark sky' area, as defined by the CPRE. There is potential here for something unusual.

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