A Continuity of Country: Enlivenment in a Live Evocation of Place

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the noun 'landscape' originated in the painter's technical term for 'a picture representing natural inland scenery' but more generally the meaning also takes in 'a view or prospect of natural inland scenery, such as can be taken in at a glance from one point of view.' [...]this feeling she takes the 'scape' from 'landscape,' given in the Oxford English Dictionary as a suffix of Germanic origin, indicating 'creation, creature, constitution, condition,' and places with the Greek prefix 'pan' indicating 'the whole of the universe' to give the neologism 'panscape.' [...]as she bends to pick up ripe berries from the wait-a-while, it is through haiku that the question of finding her place is applied to where nature fits in relation to her: inside or outside. jungle green palm leaves tangling the understorey burst from canopies whips of hooks and barbs forcing flight to wait-a-while grasp the windblown leaf too small for focus shiny brown milmarr seed disks pixelate the path after the tart pulp spitting seeds the forest floor gulp! it grows inside. According to Weber, the organism 'shows behaviour that is constantly evaluating influences from the external (and also its own, internal) world' (31): the performer and the audience, as components of its inner world, are constantly evaluating each other and their behaviour shifts according to what the other is doing.