Resumen de The Landscape approach of Bernard Lassus
At a 1981 conference devoted to "The Minimal Intervention" in landscape, Bernard Lassus accompanied both his opening and his closing remarks with a brief illustration. In the first case, he projected a colour slide of his "Ambiance 6", a work dating back to 1965. A close-up picture of vivid red tulips is invaded from the right-hand side by a human thumb, which holds a small strip of white card: the card is thus irradiated with the reflection of the tulip, and we learn, in Lassus's words, that "the tulip is also a volume of light" coloured differently from its surroundings. In the second case, at the end of the conference, Lassus did not present an image, but recounted a brief story. When a particular African tribe was brought out of the dense forest in which its life had been spent and introduced to the clearing, individual members of the tribe tried vainly to shake hands with people who were many yards away. Accustomed as they were to seeing their fellow human-beings at very short distances, they concluded that the figures they saw in the clearing were doll-sized beings, who were nonetheless very close to them.
