COGNITIVE INTERFACES, IFA HERMENEUTICS AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF LANDSCAPE IN THE WORK OF SUSANNE WENGER AND
KATHERINE MALTWOOD

COMPREHENSIVE WORKING OUTLINE

Chapter 1:

A. Statement of Purpose
B. Justification of Purpose

Chapter 2:

Theoretical Framework and Methodology
A. Exposition of Theoretical Framework

a. The Hermeneutic Process in Ifa Divination

b. Communities as Mental Entities/Mental Units in Relation to Interpretive Communities and their Members

c. Creative Dynamics in the Artistic Processes of Wenger and Maltwood

B. Exposition and Justification of Methodology

a. Quaternary Correlation between
b. The Individual
understood as

b.1.The Temporal Conscious self

b.2.The Atemporal Unconscious Self

c. The Individual's Interpretive Community

d. The Phenomena Engaged with by the Individual in the Context of their Interpretive Community

e. The Expression of the Confluence Between Individual Predisposition,Social Influences and Landscape Forms in the Creation of and Symbolic Resonance Realised through Works of Art

Chapter 3:

Wenger and the Oshun Forest

A. The Orisanla Shrine

a. The Orisanla Sculpture

b. The Pot at the Orisanla Shrine

c. The Orisanla Shrine House

B. The Iya Mopo Space:the Holy Potter’s Field

a. The Chameleon Gate

b. Iya Mopo

c. Ela

d. Alajere

IFA HERMENEUTICS AND THE INTERPRETATION OF LANDSCAPE IN THE THE ARTISTIC WORK OF SUSANNE WENGER AND KATHERINE MALTWOOD


Basic Working Outline

Chapter 1:

A. Dialogue between Modes of Being and Forms of Knowledge

B. Epistemo-Biographical Orientations and Lacunae in Wenger and Maltwood Scholarship

Chapter 2:

Ifa Hermeneutics as Transformative Spiral Mediating Between Ontological and Discursive Forms

Chapter 3:

The Oshun Forest as Site of Ideational and Material Transformation by Atelier Wenger

Chapter 4:
Katherine Maltwood's and Mary Caine's Cartographic and Ideational Reconstruction of the Glastonbury Landscape

Chapter 5:
Cognitive Agents and Cognitive Forms: Paradoxical Convergences