http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_B._%22Stubb%22_Stubblefield
Information on the Stubbs memorial can be found at the link above.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
The Sound of Site
Site seems to have been introduced to me as concerning the earth, the surrounding structures and land, and the genus foci. However, at the Lubbock Windmill museum, I was introduced to a new concept: the sound of site. Though this had been informally introduced through collage topics in my studio, I had the opportunity to find a deeper meaning to the way site can be studied.
Strewn about a large tract of land on a hill, windmills of varying ages and localities were available to be studied. Above the wind of Lubbock, the sound of the pumping mechanism could be heard. What did this sound really signify to those who depended on the machines for water for their farms on the western plains? Wealth. Home. Progress. What of the railroads which used the larger windmills to pump? Progress. Efficiency. Speed to a new tomorrow.
Though this is not all I learned at the museum, the sound of site is a big part of a new understanding of what makes a site a place rather than a list of conditions.
Strewn about a large tract of land on a hill, windmills of varying ages and localities were available to be studied. Above the wind of Lubbock, the sound of the pumping mechanism could be heard. What did this sound really signify to those who depended on the machines for water for their farms on the western plains? Wealth. Home. Progress. What of the railroads which used the larger windmills to pump? Progress. Efficiency. Speed to a new tomorrow.
Though this is not all I learned at the museum, the sound of site is a big part of a new understanding of what makes a site a place rather than a list of conditions.
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