1. Spatial Desire

We discover, move through and occupy within, space because of our mobility. Through a change of diet, bipedalism, the use of tools, curiosity, and by following prey, hominins expanded their original territory out of Africa. This I would like to call: a spatial desire, which resulted in humans exploring and quickly settling anywhere on the planet. Immersed in the world, humans have observed and created a framework in which the search for an essence of the phenomena that this world brought forth, could be represented, and maybe understood. Through the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, especially his Phenomenology of Perception, we aim to support the argument that we make perception out of things perceived. In addition Merleau-Ponty helps us to understand that the world is not what we think we see it is, rather it is how we experience it. Earlier, Oscar Wilde had suggested that art brings out not only the essence of an object, but also the phenomena of the object of art. To Wilde and Merleau-Ponty art shows us the world as it truly is. As an example the work of conceptual artists, Richard Long and Walter De Maria, show that through a minimal intrusion the essence of the site can become visible.