Aims and scope
The Art of Terraced Landscapes is the journal of the International Terraced Landscapes Alliance (ITLA) for artistic, visual and creative work about terraced landscapes. It starts from the view that terraces are themselves a work of many hands, built stone by stone over generations, and that artists, photographers and writers can show sides of them that research and reports do not: their beauty, their memory, the feelings they hold and the futures people imagine for them.
Scope
The journal welcomes work across media and disciplines. So far it has published photo stories of scarecrows in Japanese rice terraces, sketches made during an expedition on La Gomera, essays on a hillside garden and on finding solace in terraces during the pandemic, the stonemasons of the Dolbitna art school on Jeju and a visual chronicle of the terraces of the Canary Islands drawn from a historical photo archive. Typical subjects include:
- Photography: documentary and artistic series, historical photographs and archives, aerial and drone views of terraced landscapes.
- Drawing, painting and printmaking: field sketches, illustrations, maps drawn by hand.
- Craft as art: dry-stone walling, stone carving and the schools and masters who pass these skills on.
- Land art, installation and design: artistic interventions on terraces, landscape and architectural design that grows out of terracing.
- Writing: essays, artist statements, poetry and personal accounts of living and working with terraces.
- Performance, film and sound: work that takes place on or about terraced landscapes, presented through stills and text.
The journal is interested in the symbolic, aesthetic, cultural and emotional values of terraced landscapes, in their transformation and memory, and in creative work that helps communities see their own landscape anew.
What we publish
- Photo essays and visual portfolios: a series of images with captions and a short introduction.
- Artworks with an artist's statement.
- Short essays of about 1,000 words, alone or combined with images.
- Editorials that introduce each issue.
Images are central. Full-page and double-page photographs are welcome; every image carries a caption with place, year and author. Contributions are reviewed by the editors. Artists, designers, photographers, researchers and community-based practitioners are all invited to submit; see the instructions for authors.
Readers
Everyone who cares about terraced landscapes, from artists and designers to farmers, researchers and visitors. Research appears in The Journal of Terraced Landscapes, reports from the ITLA networks in the International Terraced Landscapes Alliance Journal.
