Another Love Letter
to Place
The Loving Place project is an artful attempt at revealing a community’s attitudes to place.
Sometimes confusing and problematic to city planners, artists, designers and citizens alike, ‘place’ as an entity is probably better known as a human construct of being in place. Rather than of place.
We often try to sense and understand places by getting inside them — temporary or otherwise — immersed by the experiences and relations that reciprocate to that becoming.
Over time we often start to belong to those relationships. Affinities and affairs start to prevail. We learn to return and pay homage to place in curious ways — real or imagined.
Gifting a preference of place with an image or short story is another way of giving back to place itself. It is supposed to be generous, engaging and kind. Loving if you will.
These community gifts are intended to stir things up a bit, so we can all appreciate what we may be saving or losing. For the identity of Walyalup-Fremantle places are never quite static. They are dynamic to the social, spiritual and physical relationships and values that keep places intact or tear them apart. They are built, bulldozed and rebuilt all the time.
Places can be mundane and ordinary, strange, weird and wonderful. They can be much more than being beautiful. They can mean a lot when they are mostly liveable and part of the everyday. Most of all they give voice and feeling to the human condition.
Thanks for being a part of this community project for Walyalup-Fremantle. Please send a gift.
Grant Revell, 2024.