Documenting our Landscape

The moment of experience can be viewed as existential time, the time of experience. Visual representations exist outside of existential time finding their place in historical time. An observer’s response-ability to the image is only a potential that may only be actualized when the image is viewed by an observer who, in turn, constructs some kind of meaning from the image. It might be argued that while being observed, studied, read, the image, if for only a short time, re-covers existential time but not of the moment captured rather the new existential time is dependent on observation of the two dimensional object called the image. Once returned to storage, once an observer turns away his or her gaze, the image reverts back to potential and is only found in historical time.