By observing change over a brief period of time, one is forced to use analysis and imagination to understand what future conditions on the site will be like. Any piece of design, but especially those of landscapes, are not frozen in time upon completion. What you design and construct will take on a completely different experience and meaning as days, months, seasons and years pass. Desoto is definitely a landscape in flux and any observations or design decisions must account for both the minor and major changes that will occur there.
This exercise began the process of listing those changes, by making note of what was happening there upon arrival and then documenting the quick, gradual and long term changes that stood out to me or I speculated would happen.
The outer ring of annotations contain observations that happened when I first arrived. The inner ring is for elements that changed or I thought would change. The annotations aren connected to the two rings by three color coded leader lines. Yellow being a connection to the present or future as having sudden change potential, green having gradual change potential and orange as long term change potential.
