This is yet another post for my Personal Aesthetic Practice.
From the time I was a born to when I was four years old, I used to live on an acreage. After that, until I was twelve, I lived in a small town in Alberta before moving to the city of Regina. I was always close to the outdoors and the countryside. Sometimes my family and I would travel across the landscape from our small town to the city Red Deer to visit family. While driving through the country, I remember thinking about the vast distances between the towns and trying to imagine how long it would take to walk from one town to another across the country.
This also makes me wonder about how on earth people survived and traveled in the past. For this weeks aesthetic practice topic I am writing about the wonder of where we came from, to where we are, and where we will be in the future.
Above are two images I took just outside of the city facing away into the country side. When taking these pictures I was thinking about how we could have survived in such a barren land and thinking about what life could have been like before we had cities and cars. It must have been a life far different form today.
This picture (above) is one of our city. In contrast to the previous two, it looks much different. We have created this vast city scape in the midst of a wilderness. I think the next image gives some great perspective of how insignificant our “great” city seems compared to the land around us.
In this picture we can barely make out where the buildings are on the horizon. Even though we have come a long way from our beginnings, having heated buildings and luxury vehicles, this image makes our big city seem very very small.
These pictures and the idea of coming from the wilderness into a “big” city is something crazy. It makes me wonder where we as a people will be in the future, how we will live, and what our cities or places of dwelling will look like.
Benjamin Ironstand 