The central idea in Stephen Daniels and Denis Cosgrove’s piece is that what matters most about landscapes, is the mental schemas and the social or emotional associations we have with them. The meanings of landscapes are embedded within our own perception of the social flows around us. The most important aspect of the essay is that landscape’s meaning is based on our own perception: “The post-modern apprehension of the world emphasizes the inherent instability of meaning, our ability to invert signs and symbols, to recycle them in a different context and thus transform their reference” (p. 7). Apprehension of place is terribly unstable. As postmodernity would have us believe, there is no single or simple classification of a place. In his piece on cartography, Harley would have us believe that consumption of place becomes universal through a hegemonic control of its representation. This piece leads me to challenge that thought with the notion that it is our own imagination that allows us to deconstruct landscape. My own physical experience of the Allen Island sail loft has interacted with my knowledge about the island to create an entirely knew perception of the sail loft, that exists outside of space and time. From being a store in 1822, to a sail loft later on in the century where rugged Mainers would hang out and smoke cigarettes, to now being a museum, the building is a timeless mental image for me, where I try and retrace its meaning as place to others throughout history. Nevertheless, this imagination is fully my own, and is filtered through my own experience of the buildings history and its current existence.