Abstract
How can the museum draw attention to landscape? Positioning museum and landscape in a dialectical relationship facilitates figuring--a process that leverages the qualities of the museum to reveal what a dynamic landscape often obscures. The navigation of this relationship generates art. The museum, as a platform, focuses attention to these objects and renders the invisibility of landscape visible. Yet even in the museum, landscape eludes containment and definition, these figures are not landscape in its entirety, they are only ever precursors to thought, dialogue, and debate. In the exploration of a region of upstate New York, the juxtaposition of thesis with antithesis allows the mediation of the tension to guide actions that ground the museum and figure the landscape. The transformation of 160 silos from geographic location to edited and arranged images figures the landscape, while the display of this process questions the power and role of the museum.