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“Landscape/Water”



                                                     In this paper, presented at the          aims to capture that abstract,
                                                     Tributaries Project Seminar (May         uncertain “time between,” when
                                                     21), Grettel discusses the               change is about to happen. If the

                                                     theoretical approach of the overall      surrounding environment is a

                                                     project which inspired the making        dynamic interplay of forces,
                                                     of “Visceral Sludge.” She moves          permanently in transition and
                                                     beyond a traditional conception of       always a ceaseless movement

                                                     landscape painting as a static image     between invisible particles, then
                                                     representing a scene viewed from a       pollution too, must be thought of in

                                                     human perspective. Instead, she          these terms. Contemporary micro-
                                                     sees a landscape as a field of forces    pollution is the underlying meaning

                                                     always in motion. Things are never       which runs below the surface
                                                     still, but always in transition, always   appearance of all landscapes, even

                                                     becoming.  This is nicely captured in    the most seemingly pristine.
                                                     the concept of the “liminal.” The        Grettel’s question becomes one of
                                                     word “liminal,” derived from the         depicting contemporary landscapes

                                                     Latin word for “threshold,” suggests     through the lens of dust and, now,
                                                     an uncertain “moment between,”           invisible micro-level water pollution,

                                                     when an entity is “no longer one         and the aesthetic problem is how
                                                     thing” but not yet another. She          to capture this in a painting.





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