Landscape 1- Philip Vivirito

Lane says, “This is a book concerned with ordinary landscape, seen—with the eyes of faith—in binary vision.” First part of the quote makes sense to me because an axiom Lane talks about is an ordinary place can be a spiritual place; in this case Lane is talking about a landscape. He then talks about eyes of faith, which I guess Lane is talking about believing things with your eyes that are really not there. Which is hard to grasp at first, but it seems to me Lane is talking about your heart. That you see the world through your heart, and the eyes you have make you blind. In Platonic philosophy Plato says that your senses perceive you to think of something that is not worth it, which they are bad for. To me this idea of Plato can apply somewhat, but Lane would probably argue you need your senses in order to feel the effect of this ordinary landscape. What is confusing for me is the last part of the quote when he is talking about “binary vision.” What is Lane talking about when he talks about this vision? The word binary means 2, so is Lane talking about we see the world in 2 ways? If this is the case what are the 2 visions we need to have to look at the world? I believe Lane points out the first vision and that is faith. The second one I think is up the person who is looking at the landscape, and that vision differs from person to person. Another question I have is what happens if we don’t have binary vision? Can we take in the full effect of the landscape with only one vision? Personally I think Lane is correct in saying you need to have a binary vision, it makes the idea of landscape more holy, and it makes it more connected to the person. So I guess I need to find what my binary vision is.