During one of our first discussions, we talked about the differences between place, space, and landscape. However, the primary focus of that conversation was the difference between space and place, while landscape was somewhat overlooked. In D.W. Meining’s “The Beholding Eye”, the concept of landscape is reintroduced in many different views. One view that I found particularly captivating was the idea of landscape as aesthetic, and how it relates to Harvey’s idea of relational spacetime (Harvey, 14). Meining describes landscape in this view as “holding meanings which links us as individual souls and psyches to an ineffable and infinite world” (Meining 47). From my interpretation of relational spacetime, the field of flows is a connecting web of things, events, and processes, which acts a structure for understanding spacetime. I see this aesthetic view of landscape as its own type of a field of flows, and the “ineffable and infinite world” as a quasi-parallel for spacetime. If we accept Meining view of landscape as aesthetic, then we accept that landscape is cable of linking individuals to the world. Just like a field of flows is interwoven through spacetime. If every person brings their own ideas, past experiences, dreams, memories, and anticipation when experiencing a situation, then every one will experience a moment, uniquely. However, collectively their experience from that point will have affect in the future. Two people objectively viewing the same landscape painting will experiences it differently but together their collective experience will affect the painting. Relative to what we are studying in class- every person that visits, lives on, or passes through the islands off the midcoast of Maine brings a bit of themselves to the islands and when and if they leave, they take some of the island with them.