VISIBILITY
Passive experiences are deeply felt but difficult to articulate.
Tile small pleasures and irritations of day-to-day living, the barely
registered but omnipresent ambience of sound and smell, the feel
of air, soft soil, and hard ground, the happy accidents and the
occasional blows of fate - these are the common experiences of
life that may add up to a profound sense of place. But to know a
place in the full sense of knowing requires participation by the
discerning eye and mind. Passive experience and inchoate feelings
must be given shape and made visible; and that is the function
of art, education, and politics.