Lane
discusses in his book Landscapes of the Sacred that the composition of
place is “a dynamic exchange between a culturally formed imagination and an
embodied contact one experiences.”
In his discussion he states that we are unable to see and experience a
place exactly how it is. Instead
of simply seeing what our senses are telling us at face value, our cultural
background forces our brains to perceive our surroundings differently. So because of this, what we experience
as place is what we are directly experiencing that is slightly altered by our
cultural imagination.
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