The contemporary landscape attempts to create a mentalist microcosm of the cosmos by presenting a view of the world that everything resides within the mind and proceeds out of it. Subjective expression is the only guideline to go by, because assumed standards or reality are now held suspect at best, if not rejected outright.
The only sense of absolute becomes the self and the expression of self. This contributes to a feeling that something amorphous is always emerging, taking new form, and changing reality right before our very eyes.
Such ideals are too abstract to be work with unless we give them form in something tangible.
This is why contemporary landscapes rely so heavily on geometric shapes to give solidity to the complex states of consciousness that lie behind their designs. The basic geometric shapes of the universe are altered to create a myriad subset of new forms.
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