After reading the Mitchell article and talking about modernism last class I noticed there was a strong connection between modernism and changing landscape. Imperialism occurs because of the modernism mindset that we are always looking to improve. Imperialism causes almost instant cultural changes – similar to the Netherlands in the 17th century, changing from a rebellious colony to a maritime empire. These cultural changes caused by a “modernism” mindset affect how landscape is perceived. After the Netherlands transformed, a hybrid landscape occurred that was characterized as imperial/modern and anti colonial. Mitchell even states that “landscape is seen as a “dreamwork” of imperialism.” When there is a historical change or a significant shift in culture, there will be new developments for the articulation of landscape. Landscape is a form of art and the way it is depicted changes in the same way that art changes over history. The same way that the change to the romanticist period occurred as a reaction to the industrial revolution, which was a period of modernization. “Imperialism is an expansion of landscape understood as inevitable progressive development in history, an expansion of culture and civilization into natural space in a progress that itself is narrated as natural.” The natural progress described is modernization.