Enchanted Things

<p><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The world is on the move; seas rise villages are emptied coastlines are redrawn deserts spread to the suburbs snowfall increases and lost battlefields re-emerge. Only soap operas give any impression of permanence. Traditional fortresses like home dwelling and nation are increasingly exposed as porous fabricated and expensive things. The ways are opening for a pervasive and benevolent nomadism a new art of living on both grand and individuated scales.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In this lovely photo-essay Phil Smith - playwright walk-performance artist (Wrights & Sites and Crabman) and author (</span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Mis-Guides</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Mythogeography On Walking </em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>and </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Counter-Tourism</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>) draws our attention to a chorus of surprises yelling from the sides of the road like particularly unruly spectators at a parade.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Focusing on signs simulacra objects and places that prove to be more less or other than what they seem (all illustrated throughout the book) the author encourages us to look afresh at our quotidian urban and rural surroundings to see what lies just beneath the surface.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Once identified these absurd empty recalcitrant enchantments can transform the way we live and think and occupy our inner and outer landscapes.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Urging us to hypersensitize ourselves to the full blast of contemporary landscape's intensity Phil Smith explains how to let our tentacles unfurl in order to explore and see the world around us in all its glory.</span></p>