Back to the things themselves, an existential reading of landscape.

From Plato & Aristotle, & in particular René Descartes, it was posited that essence proceeds existence, later inverted by the Existentialists, best summed up by Jean-Paul Sartre, though articulated by others such as Kierkegaard & Heidegger. In these photographs taken form one single vantage point, I set out to challenge the notion of essence & existence, specifically through a phenomenological reading of our landscape, of the difference between how things present themselves to us, how reality manifests itself to us, the relationship between how things appear to us and the reality of those things, of appearance & reality. I am interested even when the appearances of the world, the appearances of reality misrepresenting the way things really are, they never the less present things as being in a particular way & what I am interested in trying to understand is how is it (so much as possible) for appearances to be appearances of apparently real objects, activities, events. “Back to the things themselves”, a summation of a phenomenological methods, assumptions, that phrase is one summarise their methodological assumptions and the thought is that if you want to understand what it is possible for appearances to be of reality and reality have to understand what you might think of as the content of those appearances Can understand what makes appearances the kind of things they are by a careful descriptive of the underlying structure of those phenomena?