I'll try to incorporate what I've learned from the readings into my interpretations of the photos I've chosen to show:
This is a place, a pond where fish can swim and live. This is called a place becuase my knowledge of what constitutes a place makes it so (location, details that can be used to describe it, fixed position in space, concrete point where I can look to and see the same thing over and over with just a few modifications depending on the time of day, etc...). This smaller place is located within the larger space of my backyard, which could easily be called a place as well, as it is located behind my house. What about this is 'place out of place'? Well to me, the reflection of myself in the water is a place out of place because I can't physically touch myself or denote the location of myself in the reflection, because after all it's only an image. But that image does occupy some sort of location in the space. Taking this idea further, as I took a picture of the pond below, I remember seeing myself and the trees around me, and even the sky in the pond. Again this is a place ( a pond located outside of a sanctuary in Omega, a place in New York). But the image reflected off of the water represents to me a third space where there exists the projection of reality as it was at that point in time that I snapped the picture. Could this then be considered 'time out of time'? Maybe, because who is to say when this picture occurred and if that would change the outcome of the picture or not? My experience tells me when and how as well as the time of day/date that I took the picture. But someone else's experience of this photo might give them a different impression of the time/season/day when the pic. was taken.
This final picture is of my phone, which my 6 yr old brother put in our refrigerator. Obviously this isn't meant to be a heterotopia, but it is 'time out of time' b/c for the time that the phone was in the fridge, I had no watch on and didn't know what time it was or how long of time passed until I found my phone.
This is a place, a pond where fish can swim and live. This is called a place becuase my knowledge of what constitutes a place makes it so (location, details that can be used to describe it, fixed position in space, concrete point where I can look to and see the same thing over and over with just a few modifications depending on the time of day, etc...). This smaller place is located within the larger space of my backyard, which could easily be called a place as well, as it is located behind my house. What about this is 'place out of place'? Well to me, the reflection of myself in the water is a place out of place because I can't physically touch myself or denote the location of myself in the reflection, because after all it's only an image. But that image does occupy some sort of location in the space. Taking this idea further, as I took a picture of the pond below, I remember seeing myself and the trees around me, and even the sky in the pond. Again this is a place ( a pond located outside of a sanctuary in Omega, a place in New York). But the image reflected off of the water represents to me a third space where there exists the projection of reality as it was at that point in time that I snapped the picture. Could this then be considered 'time out of time'? Maybe, because who is to say when this picture occurred and if that would change the outcome of the picture or not? My experience tells me when and how as well as the time of day/date that I took the picture. But someone else's experience of this photo might give them a different impression of the time/season/day when the pic. was taken.
This final picture is of my phone, which my 6 yr old brother put in our refrigerator. Obviously this isn't meant to be a heterotopia, but it is 'time out of time' b/c for the time that the phone was in the fridge, I had no watch on and didn't know what time it was or how long of time passed until I found my phone.
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