Time and Co-Motion: The Industrial-Pastoral

Time changes one’s perspective; if one is careful, perspective also changes one’s time.

The American pastoral is wilderness, or at least woods. The British pastoral is the garden, mark on the earth showing cultivation and order. Conceptually constructed, the garden represents a tending, a maintenance of nature that comes equipped with an expectation and understanding of what it means to be cultured.

Even the American wilderness, even as maintained by laws such as the Wilderness Act or the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, instills an order on top of nature by proscribing certain human action. Nothing is left untouched, even by dint of mandating no contact.

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