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Re: Alexander Keiller's Avebury/The Sanctuary
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Mustard wrote:
Evergreen Dazed wrote:

I've been there, and its a nice place to visit, but you don't get the buzz, because you know what you are looking at isn't bona fide. It makes for nice photos, but it detracts from the sense of place.

Surely 'integrity' is the important word in all this. I get a much stronger feeling standing at the Sanctuary, imagining what it was like (to my mind the concrete posts aren't saying 'look at us' they're just an indication, to aid your thoughts) rather than a kind of pretence with modern stones. As mentioned earlier, that does feel a bit disney to me.
I don't like the idea at all.

I strongly disagree. Which I guess goes to show just how subjective and personal a lot of this is. Each person's experience of any site is unique to them. Which in turn, explains why it's so hard to reach agreement and to reconcile all our different preferences.


Fair enough, and thats what a forum like this is all about I guess, its great to speak to people holding opposing views, broadens your own thinking.

Given that a lot of this whole subject is about the use of imagination in one sense or another, its seems so odd to me to want to put in a load of modern stones, almost 'concreting' an image or thought.
It feels like radio vs TV in some ways, in the sense when you are forced into using your mind and imagination it seems to be a richer experience, but when you are just presented with 'here it is' its somehow slightly shallower (to my mind) and appeals to a more base need to just 'see' something, the visual, rather than experience it fully in other ways.

Its the site thats important, not people wanting to be visually entertained.


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Evergreen Dazed
Posted by Evergreen Dazed
24th January 2013ce
12:49

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