{"id":1398,"date":"2010-04-28T19:54:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T19:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2018-11-14T14:38:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T19:38:18","slug":"energy-and-beauty-in-symmetry-and-repetition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2010\/04\/energy-and-beauty-in-symmetry-and-repetition\/","title":{"rendered":"energy and beauty in symmetry and repetition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">I think there is a particular kind of aesthetic beauty in the simple repetition of forms over large expanses of contrasting landscape. Even more so when those repeated forms provide sustainable energy.\u00a0 The just-approved off-shore wind farm is one such example, solar &#8220;farms&#8221; are another.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cape-wind-approved.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1399 \" title=\"cape-wind-approved\" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cape-wind-approved-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cape-wind-approved-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cape-wind-approved.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Artists&#8217; rendering of Cape Wind, via NY Times&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/1SolarFarmPhoto_AlamosaCo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1400\" title=\"1SolarFarmPhoto_AlamosaCo\" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/1SolarFarmPhoto_AlamosaCo-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/1SolarFarmPhoto_AlamosaCo-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/1SolarFarmPhoto_AlamosaCo.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>The well-heeled opposition to the mentioned wind farm has only posed the aesthetic argument that this visual intrusion into the seascape must by definition be negative.\u00a0 I disagree.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s quite attractive, calming, and interesting.\u00a0 I think the connotations only increase our appreciation of the natural environment that serves as the backdrop (or, more appropriately, the visual context\/physical participant).\u00a0 My interpretation is built on the &#8220;purely artistic&#8221; cues from the vocabulary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visual-arts-cork.com\/land-art.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">landscape artworks<\/a> of Smithson, Goldsworthy,\u00a0 or &#8211; the best exemplar to illustrate my perspective &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diaart.org\/sites\/main\/lightningfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walter De Maria&#8217;s Lightning Field<\/a>.\u00a0 Too bad we have more hot air than wind around here&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1401\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/thelightningfield1977_cliett.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1401\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1401\" title=\"thelightningfield1977_cliett\" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/thelightningfield1977_cliett-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/thelightningfield1977_cliett-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/thelightningfield1977_cliett.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walter De Maria, The Lightning Field, 1977. Long-term installation in Western New Mexico. Photo: John Cliett. Copyright Dia Art Foundation.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">I think there is a particular kind of aesthetic beauty in the simple repetition of forms over large expanses of contrasting landscape. Even more so when those repeated forms provide sustainable energy.\u00a0 The just-approved off-shore wind farm is one such example, solar &#8220;farms&#8221; are another.<\/p>\n<p>Artists&#8217; rendering of Cape Wind, via NY Times&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The well-heeled opposition to the mentioned wind farm has only posed the aesthetic argument that this visual intrusion into the seascape must by definition be negative.\u00a0 I disagree.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s quite attractive, calming, and interesting.\u00a0 I think the connotations only increase our appreciation of the natural environment that serves as the backdrop (or, more appropriately, the visual context\/physical participant).\u00a0 My interpretation is built on the &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2010\/04\/energy-and-beauty-in-symmetry-and-repetition\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[8,114,47,46],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-planning","tag-art","tag-beauty","tag-energy","tag-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5574,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions\/5574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}