The Underwater Landscape: A Vernacular Term? Reflections Through the Eyes and Experiences of Divers

"You Know the Pyrenees by Day - Come See Them by Night..." Reflections on in visu Artialisation of Nocturnal Skyscapes in the Pyrenees

“…For this morphological part of our analysis, we draw on studies of a quite different landscape category -the underwater landscape. There are a number of analogies of interest between the two categories: ways of seeing, patterns of experience (Bigando, 2014) and natural and technical filters operate in the same way and create the necessary conditions for unique experiences of landscape and their in visu artialisation (document 6). The "celestial" part of nocturnal skyscapes 17 The "celestial" part of nocturnal skyscapes is linked to various celestial objects and phenomena that can be listed quite exhaustively.…”

“…As underlined by E. Bigando (2014) and O. Musard (2007), "the water column or water mass alone (the "blueness") do not make up an underwater landscape".…”

“…The stars, celestial objects or phenomena in the sky are not a nocturnal skyscape in themselves. They are constituent parts of the night sky that structure perceptions and representations, but, from a landscape point of view, they are not "significant" (Bigando, 2014).…”