There is a
short quasi-fiction by that name in my prose collection, Doctor of Silence.When the
painter Paul Hotvedt read the piece he was stirred to think and plan further,
since the notions of the geography we see only in dream rimed with some of his
own work as a meticulous and reverent scribe of the waking world he observes
all around him in eastern Kansas.At his prompting, a local arts council
organized a conference on Landscape and the Imagination. It took place in Lawrence in 2001, a few
weeks after 9/11, at a moment when the meaning and sanctity of place reigned in
everybody’s thought. The text linked to
below is my contribution – my insistence on the authenticity of landscape
dreamt, and the importance of mapping it alongside the waking given.
[The
proceedings of the whole conference were published as an issue of the Cottonwood Review. Incidentally, Hotvedt’s
own website (paulhotvedt.com) offers innumerable visual examinations of
landscape by him and a number of other artists, as well as links to the Ground
Site project (groundsite.org).]
hypnogeography_RK_final.pdf [369.17K]