Witnessing the Waste Land: A Phenomenological Account of Landscape and its Discontents

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  • Mark Allwood Trent University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE29688

Abstract

“Witnessing the Waste Land: A Phenomenological Account of Landscape and its Discontents” is a text and image experiment centred around the urban wilderness of Tommy Thompson Park in Toronto, Ontario. The text can be read in numerous ways by oscillating between philosophical thought, poetry, photography, stream of consciousness, and the analysis and inclusion of documents. In some ways this approach is an imitation and a reaction to the postmodern urban schizophrenia one encounters at a park that operates as a waste disposal facility, a habitat for flora and fauna, a research centre, a bike trail, a habitat creation project, a birder’s  paradise, and a waste land.

Author Biography

Mark Allwood, Trent University

Mark Allwood is a photographer, filmmaker, musician, and PhD from El Salvador based in Ontario, Canada. He shoots a diverse range of genres including street and city photography, new topographics, abstract photography, and landscape.  His photographic interests are not fixed or clearly defined because they stem from the philosophical pursuits of his day job as an academic.

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Published

2024-09-04

How to Cite

Allwood, M. (2024). Witnessing the Waste Land: A Phenomenological Account of Landscape and its Discontents. Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 15(1), 9–41. https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE29688

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2024): Open Issue

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Copyright (c) 2023 Mark Allwood

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