Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Map in a map
Date: Mar 08, 2001 @ 20:51
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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that is the wettest dreamscape i ever heard of

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& how did the freakin popes line ever make it to australia




>
>There is a new national museum in Canberra, opening on sunday. TV coverage
>featured a quick glimpse of a pool outside the museum, that had an irregular
>edge and island-like paving stones near the edge. I wondered if this was
>meant to be a map-like pool.
>My sources suggest it is:
>
>The official pamphlet describes this feature (The Garden of Australian
>Dreams) as 'a richly patterned map of Australia...(that) can be thought of
>as a theatrical weaving of both the Great Australian Dream and the
>Aboriginal Dreaming...Those two coexistent world viewsare signified by two
>maps used to create the garden's surface' Those maps are 'a standard
>English language map of Australia' and Horton's map of tribal boundaries of
>Indigenous Australia. 'The names and lines of these two maps interweave,
>erase and overlay one another. Other fragments are taken from vegetation,
>geological and weather maps plus 'various cartographic oddities' such as the
>Dingo Fence and the Pope's Line.[This presumably is the line of the treaty
>of Tor...., whereby the Pope divided the Spanish new world from the
>Portuguese] There are a number of other symbolic features interwoven into
>the design. The outline 'map' is basically only the Top End [Ie Darwin and
>the top of the northern Territory] The Garden of Australian Dreams is a
>creation of a Perth-based architectural landscape group.
>Photos once someone I know with a camera can get there...
>
>Brendan
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