A landscape is the land – the stone, the matter, the solid – and the scape – the view, the pattern, the form, the idea, the spirit. The scape in landscape is a good place at which to start understanding qualia.
The land makes an impression on us through our senses, but our minds also make an impression upon it.
The mind pushes back upon the land and turns it into something else – a scape – something with meaning for us.
All landscapes have this inner and outer aspect to them – part of the landscape is inside of us – in the mind – and the other part is outside of us – noticed by the senses.
Everything we know has this dual aspect – it is a conundrum with which philosophers have struggled for thousands of years.