Date: 1991-92. Length: 9:20.

In the piece there are landscapes pregnant with imagery, but the landscapes are incomplete in their appearance and as a result are shrouded in dream-like ambiguity. In some instances, this results from figure & ground arrangements that belong more to the category of collage than to a representation of conventional experience. In other cases, this happens because settings are stripped of their distinguishing features in order to arrive at specific colour fields.

Nonetheless, the images encountered spark pictures in the listening mind, as they inspire the imagination to construct a new ground of experience from which everyday logic vanishes temporarily. These new landscapes connect experiences and places that could never be joined in the physical world. The terrain thus freshly encountered, requires the listener to do some careful excavating and study the loose fragments still partially decipherable. Yet in doing so, the listener must nurture in the imagination the ability to record the discoveries found from one journey to the next. For it is the capacity to articulate and fathom at will abstract and irrational images, which enables one to proffer a sensitivity to the imaginative realm of conventional experience. Which brings me to the goal of this piece: to engage the listener in developing his or her own personal imaginery thruline.