Warning: Constant FS_CHMOD_DIR already defined in /home/grantell/public_html/wp-config.php on line 106
Warning: Constant FS_CHMOD_FILE already defined in /home/grantell/public_html/wp-config.php on line 106
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/grantell/public_html/wp-config.php:106) in /home/grantell/public_html/wp-includes/feed-rss2.php on line 8 Photography theory – Grant Ellmers
https://grantellmers.com
my work, notes, process, and some thoughtsWed, 18 Nov 2020 07:03:17 +0000en-AU
hourly
1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2Ruins
https://grantellmers.com/?p=348
https://grantellmers.com/?p=348#respondTue, 17 Nov 2020 19:25:34 +0000http://grantellmers.com/?p=348From ‘Ruins’, Edited by Brian Dillon
Ruins of memory Notes from Rebecca Solnit (p150-152)
Ruins stand as reminders
Memory is always incomplete falling into ruin, but the ruins themselves, like traces, are treasures
Ruins are links to what came before
Our guide to situating ourselves in a landscape of time
To erase the ruins is to erase the visible public triggers of memory
the USA is rich in ruins, though not always as imagined – it is without a past only in the sense that it does not own it’s past, or own up to it (p151)
My notes/questions arising from Solnit
Is a landscape or place without ruins a place without a past?
What classifies as a ruin?
Colonial Australia has a history of not recognising ruins outside of its own narrow view of the world
It is becoming clearer is that ruins/traces of Australia’s indigenous culture are very much present, however it was not recognised or acknowledged by colonial Australia. Worst still these traces or evidence these traces when recognised were often either ignored or destroyed
The indigenous traces did not fit the colonial narrative that no civilised society was present