Topos/Chora Revisited V

When I left for Cyprus, I really had no idea what I was getting into or what the body of work would look like.  I had vague ideas of the human fingerprint upon the landscape and the distance between the contemporary and ancient records made upon/within the landscape.  

When I got there, I began looking for how we were marking the land in search for the historical marks.  And with this perspective, several shots became especially poignant.  This one in particular conveys those ideas.  Here the literal footprints imprinted upon the landscape divide two forms of trash: one contemorary, one ancient.   Both offer some sort of record of human presence illustrated by the ephemerality of the footprints in the dirt.  Here the two worlds become condensed into one shot.  What is striking to me about this, is how these ideas pass over into the theory of history, hermeneutics and beyond. Here we can see, literally see, our impact upon our studies.  We cannot ignore our our own presence, presumptions, pe within our research.   

The photo embodies my hopes for the overall residency, with a touch of humor as well.