Book Signing with Roger Courtenay

Book Signing with Roger Courtenay In partnership with Spelled ink Bookstore

Meet Roger Courtenay, the author of Coming in to View. This book signing is free to attend and open to the public.

Coming in to View: Explorations of Radical Shifts in Beauty Outdoors

Nature, and the world around us, is changing, evolving, rapidly, fluidly. Metamorphosing in front of our eyes with climate, political, social, economic and environmental upheaval. Our personal appreciation of landscapes encompasses all those places we may have touched, visited, or seen. Inevitably, a radical shift in our notions of beauty in the outdoors is underway across all types, from inner city to wilderness. Landscapes confront and influence our physiological, psychological, and aesthetic relationship with the natural world. We question what we see. How does the ambiguity of the present and future view relate to past appreciation? What does the future hold for our love of the outdoors? Environmental, artistic, design and planning realities are already conditioning responses across the planet’s amazing landscapes. This book’s narrative arc of 17 separate essays travels through landscapes from the National Mall in Washington DC to the remote highlands of Mongolia. Uncovering the strains and indications of change in what we now experience outdoors, anywhere, everywhere, whether familiar or unfamiliar, these essays seek to open our eyes to new prospects of landscape appreciation.