L is for Lure of the Local

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alone or accompanied


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“bewilderment”


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Contested and always changing


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Distance extending without limit in all directions


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“Environment� has replaced and demythologized a great part of what was once considered Mother Nature


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Forget our pasts in favor of our futures


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Genuine sense of place


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A house might not be home forever


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Idea of interconnectedness


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Memory is juxtaposed with present experience


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Kinetically, or kinesthetically


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Lure of the local


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The more mundane search for land, job, or peace and quiet, mobility has been more American than stability


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Nature is a place where we are not


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Opaque to outsiders


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A peopled place is not always a community


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Question of abstraction and specifics


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Radical (the root of which means “root”)


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The “stranger” unites “here” and “there”


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Time moves on


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Untold land is unknown land


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Vulnerable in vast spaces


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We cannot conceive of a world without “nature”



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Yet myths and legends also come full circle to affect the way we live the daily present




Quotes and phrases drawn from Lure of the Local by Lucy R. Lippard.

This book is designed and illustrated by Amy Wang in the Spring of 2018 for Washington University, and the class, Experimental Typography taught by professor Rebecca Leffel Koren.



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