cairn project_synopsis
Context is key to understanding an experience and a history to which we come to view. walking into a landscape without a context leaves us with only one way of discerning our experience, through direct observation; we can see, hear, touch, smell the landscape but can we place it in a history? Can we create any deeper model of understanding that creates for us an appreciation for a scape that transcends what we merely observe into didactic experience?
A cairn gives us guidance, it provides a mark of significance. It provides a way to view a landscape and offers context to specific places. By viewing a cairn we gain clarity in understanding a site that may otherwise not hold significant place in our minds as we travel.
The cairn project reveals context about locations that may not be as well known to the public but offer an understanding of conditions in which land is used and maintained. The sites chosen reflect a desire to show a piece of land that may not be well known or understood and provide it with a record of its history and to publish that history in an easily accessible way.
These sites may not be the most valuable or historically significant but they help us understand a condition that is and always has been apart of the growth of the Americas. It is open to correction and adaptation. As we learn more and more about these sites, by all means if there are missing pieces, please respond and post comments it will help further the cairn and also help cultivate a richer appreciation and understanding of sites such as these
