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Cast in the beginning of time, the rock pillars of Meteora make room for an ascetic and monastic life supporting and supported by the monks who have dwelled there for almost a millennium. It is commonly accepted that the landscape of Meteora has a poetry-like quality. In step with the poetics of place, the testimonies of Meteora bring myths and facts harmoniously together. Textual and visual documentation of the place by its visitors and inhabitants, our own visits to Meteora, and UNESCO’s documents, which designate the place as a World Heritage Site, open up horizons where we interpret how the poetic quality of Meteora originates from and sustains itself in the placemaking practices of its monks. Poetics of place comes from praxis. Furthermore, the practice of placemaking at Meteora depends on an aerial imagination initiated by casting nets, which connect inhabitants and guests to the loci of monasteries that are analogous to a bird’s nest perched on top of rocks, isolated and introverted. Net and nest are constitutive figures of aerial placemaking in a landscape imagined as a practice and made possible through poetics. |
