The beauty of landscape is what I choose to illustrate in my work. In a world that has become overwhelmed with visual saturation and being imbued with technology, one can hardly concentrate or focus on one particular thing without being disrupted by one of these when walking or traveling down the highway. When a person attempts to describe their route to a destination they can hardly recall any specific thing they have seen. Humankind is too saturated with the distractions of life in the 21st century to take a moment to enjoy the beauty around us. 

 

            Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.” [1] Landscape is ever present, it is where we live, and where we perform all the sophisticated and naïve actions we humans do to build our lives. If you would watch the type of society we are today with the popularity of technology, utilizing cell phones, texting, and internet it is hardly popular to even mention that you noticed how beautiful the landscape is. For the most part one does not pay any attention to the beauty around us, only to the screen on their cell phone.

 

            Progress can be viewed as an insult on landscape as far as the farming industry is concerned but when looking at landscape from an aesthetic view I still believe that what the farming industry is doing to rural landscape is still aesthetically beautiful. However, if the viewer would choose to see the cultivated land as something that should be preserved a farmer deciding to sell off his land has the choice to sell his property to the state for a portion of what he can make from a developer?  Who can decide what is beautiful though is a matter or aesthetics. How one sees beauty is entirely up to the viewer and their perception.