Documenting our Landscape

The ability to integrate the trace of experience into memory is dependent on the prior existence of an horizon, a way of seeing/visualizing/experiencing the world that makes sense to the observer. How else does one experience beauty or the dread of ugliness? How one understands the world is relative to the context of culture, social class, gender, schooling, religion or other spiritual associations, friends, family and so on. That is the horizon that guides one’s ability to understand, to construct meaning from the otherwise meaningless.