Partially Restored

Intricate tapestry
Nascent primer
Exposed metal

In this image, we encounter not merely a collection of accidental qualities—a patch of rust here, a glint of primer there—but a substance (the vehicle itself) undergoing a process of change and revealing its underlying form.

“Actuality is prior to potency.” – Aristotle

Stark Yellow Tactile

Paving strip
Temporary parking sign
Intricate marks

Each stroke, each overlapping tag, is an act of creation, a momentary imposition of order, or perhaps a new form of disorder, upon a pre-existing surface.

“Just as our soul, being air, holds us together, so do breath and air encompass the whole world.” – Anselm of Canterbury

Metaphysical Fabric

From which it is woven
Understanding aesthetics
As a window into the underlying reality

The deep blue of the iris, with its intricate folds and velvety texture, appears solid and defined against the shimmering, almost liquid background.

“Just as our soul, being air, holds us together, so do breath and air encompass the whole world.” – Anaximenes

Open Car Doors

Merely arrangements
Infinitely complex
Intermingled reality

From an aesthetic perspective, beauty lies not merely in its composition, but in its ability to hint at a deeper, underlying order within the seemingly chaotic dance of light and shadow.

“In everything there is a portion of everything.” – Anaxagoras

Dynamic Balance

Momentary pause
Ceaseless ebb and flow
Boundless and the bounded

Here we delve into an aesthetic metaphysics where the perceived world is but a fleeting manifestation emerging from, and returning to, the boundless and indeterminate.

“Whence things have their origin, thence also their destruction happens, according to necessity; for they give to one another justice and recompense for their injustice, according to the ordering of time.” – Anaximander

Exegete of Aristotle

Form is actuality
Indeterminate substratum
Pure potentiality

The very act of aesthetic apprehension becomes an exercise in discerning the underlying forms, those enduring realities that constitute the true essence of things.

“Art is a productive state involving a true course of reasoning.” – Alexander of Aphrodisias

Red Pillar

Clear distinctions
According to
Proper form

In these visual forms is the manifestation of substances and accidents, each contributing to the particularity of the scene.

“Every being, inasmuch as it is being, is good.” – Albertus Magnus

Luminous Blurs

Noumenal presence
Hinting at a truth
Beyond immediate apprehension

The lights, freed from their mundane sources, become pure phenomena, echoes of a hidden order.

“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” – Ernst Haas

Night Portal

Beyond translucent panels
Unscripted flow
Of becoming

The “unscripted” nature of the hotel is an invitation to embrace life’s inherent fluidity, its unceasing, unforeseeable evolution.

“Consciousness, then, is a need of creation. It is true that this creation is often replaced by a mere arrangement of pre-existing elements. But creation, in so far as it is final, is never anything else than a continuous life which absorbs the past and which it does not cease to expand in creating by a truly unforeseeable development.” ― Henri Bergson

Temporal Progression

Fleeting moments
Inherent fluidity
Luminous threads

This image speaks to Bachelard’s fascination with absences that create presences, with what is implied rather than explicitly stated.

“The human soul is a product of the play of light and shadow in the mind.” – Gaston Bachelard

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