Faster and more mobile than a car--even one with legs flying vehicles can travel further to the site of an emergency, use an
aerial viewpoint to find survivors, and airlift them without needing to climb over rubble.
In his influential essay, "Practices of Space," Michel de Certeau opposes two views of urban space: the panoptic,
aerial viewpoint of the mapmakers and city planners and the perception of the walker at ground level.
From an
aerial viewpoint, the chapel is shaped like a fish, its rooftop punctuated by the skylight of the Holy Cross.
If we could look down on an area from an
aerial viewpoint and imagine all of the deer trails being colored in red, it might look similar to our own highway and road systems.
Piper's
aerial viewpoint is in itself an abstraction; a stable, hovering visual tool that neither relies on, nor tries to express, the lived experience of flight.
The show presents the viewer with a multi-faceted experience of familiar and unfamiliar landscape locations, which prompt a fascination with the aesthetic of an
aerial viewpoint with its ability to see the unseen.
She is a bringer of the "
aerial viewpoint," seeing the greater soul-picture in everything around us--in our parents, our families, our children, our cultures, our own spirits, as well as in "what lies beneath in treasure, as well as in as-yet-undeveloped and misunderstood terrain."
Throughout, Sugimoto employs an
aerial viewpoint that bisects the sea and sky into lateral bands of gray.
Each maze is individually themed and depicts a grand image from an
aerial viewpoint.
An
aerial viewpoint is often the best way to see our borne turf.
The
aerial viewpoint reveals a tattered kite, strangely fleshy in appearance (and reminiscent of Chardin's Skate), a frog hanging on a string and an attacking stork.
The perspective from
aerial viewpoints is well done and the whole book makes accessible to young children not only the life of a great historical and scientific figure but also one of the concepts of modern physics.
