 The word "inscape" can therefore be read as a kind of portmanteau, combining "interior" (or "inward") with "landscape".According to Professor Claude Cernuschi, writing in a catalogue for a Matta exhibition at Boston College (see external link below), Matta's use of the term "inscape" for a series of landscape-like abstract or surrealist paintings reflects "the psychoanalytic view of the mind as a three-dimensional space