Terrain Vague

I re read Ignasi De Sola Morales Rubio article on Terrain Vague. This article had much more relevance to what has happened academically this week. While blogging remained speculative and slightly unnecessary, I took leisure in kicking back and enjoying this text.

He starts off the the essay with a comparison through the medium of photography and relating how artists see our city, through traditional means of composition, have found a new paradigm.

Terrain Vague is a French term which has several different connotations when spoken in the English language. It refers to accumulation and juxtaposition of experiencing the city. Its translation is closest to 'questionably vacant urban spaces'. These spaces exist outside the city's effective circuits & structures.

This article reminds us of the messy realism that we exists in. We become strangers to ourselves, and as society changes infinitly faster than we can comrephend it, we become more nomadic and disconnected.