7 Gaze into the Landscape: Can Sensory Immersion, Landscape Reading and . . .
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Fig. 7.3 Drawing in water with groupers, at the place of Pellu, Natural Marine Reserve of the
Bouches de Bonifacio/project of International Marine Park of Bonifacio, Corsica. (© Florian
Freytet, All rights reserved)
(Fig. 7.4). “The probity of art”
31 , drawing can be an instrument of knowledge. It is,
inter alia, what allows the landscape designer to remain in the objective sphere, with
a hold on reality that can be shared with other disciplines and the scientific world.
7.4.3 Capturing and Representing Underwater Landscape:
An Opportunity for the Museographical Potential
of Marine Sites. the Example of Taffonu,
a Submerged Natural Sculpture?
By paying attention to the verticality of underwater landscape, the door opens to
three-dimensional perception of a landscape feature. The example of tafone or taffonu
in Corsica is highly instructive. Tafone is a block of granite weathered by wind and
salt crystallisation into an unusual silhouette. Taffonu once sculpted by wind erosion
in the past may now be underwater. An underwater encounter with the particular
geomorphological pattern of “taffonu” is striking. Ordinarily shaped into compact
balls or full, rounded masses cut through by sharper joints, the granite is weathered
31 The phrase is from Aristotle, in his Poetics treatise.
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Fig. 7.3 Drawing in water with groupers, at the place of Pellu, Natural Marine Reserve of the
Bouches de Bonifacio/project of International Marine Park of Bonifacio, Corsica. (© Florian
Freytet, All rights reserved)
(Fig. 7.4). “The probity of art”
31 , drawing can be an instrument of knowledge. It is,
inter alia, what allows the landscape designer to remain in the objective sphere, with
a hold on reality that can be shared with other disciplines and the scientific world.
7.4.3 Capturing and Representing Underwater Landscape:
An Opportunity for the Museographical Potential
of Marine Sites. the Example of Taffonu,
a Submerged Natural Sculpture?
By paying attention to the verticality of underwater landscape, the door opens to
three-dimensional perception of a landscape feature. The example of tafone or taffonu
in Corsica is highly instructive. Tafone is a block of granite weathered by wind and
salt crystallisation into an unusual silhouette. Taffonu once sculpted by wind erosion
in the past may now be underwater. An underwater encounter with the particular
geomorphological pattern of “taffonu” is striking. Ordinarily shaped into compact
balls or full, rounded masses cut through by sharper joints, the granite is weathered
31 The phrase is from Aristotle, in his Poetics treatise.