L is for Lure of the Local

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Lo e h t f

43

alone or accompanied

11

“bewilderment”

11

Contested and always changing

9

Distance extending without limit in all directions

12

“Environment� has replaced and demythologized a great part of what was once considered Mother Nature

13

Forget our pasts in favor of our futures

34

Genuine sense of place

40

A house might not be home forever

16

Idea of interconnectedness

57

Memory is juxtaposed with present experience

34

Kinetically, or kinesthetically

5

Lure of the local

40

The more mundane search for land, job, or peace and quiet, mobility has been more American than stability

12

Nature is a place where we are not

48

Opaque to outsiders

24

A peopled place is not always a community

37

Question of abstraction and specifics

5

Radical (the root of which means “root”)

42

The “stranger” unites “here” and “there”

23

Time moves on

46

Untold land is unknown land

4

Vulnerable in vast spaces

12

We cannot conceive of a world without “nature”

25

Yet myths and legends also come full circle to affect the way we live the daily present

Quotes and phrases drawn from Lure of the Local

by Lucy R. Lippard.

This book is designed and illustrated by Amy Wang in the Spring of 2018 for Washington University, and the class, Experimental Typography taught by professor Rebecca Leffel Koren.