Most general sense
Audience encounter
Temporary episode
The flow of sensory experience arises out of a radically embodied manifestation of momentary presence. By making art at the venue for exhibiting art, the aesthetic loop coheres.
“As humans we look at things and think about what we’ve looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.” – Thom Gunn
Special position
Mere subjectivity
Outright objectivity
Pinning down momentary experience with some accuracy is here effortlessly facilitated. By reducing visual sensation along pure regions of abstraction, imprecise standards for evaluating and constructing artworks evolve.
“The combination and harmony of the two faculties of cognition, those of sensibility and understanding, which, though, doubtless, indispensable to one another, do not readily permit of being united without compulsion and reciprocal infringement, must have the appearance of being undersigned and a spontaneous occurrence–otherwise it is not fine art.” – Immanuel Kant
Cheerful little flower
Designated undesirable
Surviving all difficulties
Every part of the tenacious dandelion is expedient and can variously be used as food, medicine, dye, and/or for aesthetic enjoyment. So why is it considered a weed? Perhaps it is time to abandon the unnatural quest for uniform grass lawns.
“The tarashaquq is like chicory.” – Al Razi
Basic arrangement
Fragmentary form
Particular instances
Yielding to outside pressure, in a small corner of the city several lives play out on the stage presented. Here such entanglements receive the aesthetic attention they deserve.
“Being alone is and nothing is not.” – Parmenides
Internal states
Separate whole
Instantly older
Driving into an illumination transition, the state of contiguous existence is nothing but change. By tracing the apparent discontinuity of psychical life as acts of attention, through intentionality we perceive discrete stages.
“A slight effort of attention would reveal to me that there is no feeling, no idea, no volition which is not undergoing change every moment: if a mental state ceased to vary, its duration would cease to flow.” – Henri Bergson
Various aspects
Could be anywhere
No special relationship
A sense of place can be experienced in many different ways. Sometimes where you are is incidental to the aesthetic experience of being somewhere. At that moment, a form of generic indistinguishably becomes the defining component of place.
“Whenever you get there, there is no there there.” – Gertrude Stein
Soon right away
Don’t get left behind
Night turns around
Lights illuminate on the opposite river bank, as the mighty Mississippi flows by points of historic significance and cultural lore.
“A fight between the blue you once knew; floating down, the sound resounds; around the icy waters underground.” – Syd Barrett
Linear progress
Intentional object
Heavily influenced
Mythology here localizes on the urban surface, influencing the cultural environment. As such, myth mitigates the crisis of modern alienation by offering resonating chambers harmonically tuned to cause destructive interference.
“History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always accept their destinies willingly.” – Aberjhani
Live oak
Boarding house
Correlation of elements
On the fringe of the Rapides Cemetery in Pineville Louisiana is an old deserted boarding house. Under the boarded-up structure is a potter’s field.
“Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
Concordant tangle
Thematic oppositions
Configurative unity
On transitional boundaries awareness intensifies, as associated emotions are more strongly experienced.
“Solitude has the peculiar and original power not of isolating us but of projecting our whole existence out into the vast nearness of the presence of all things.” – Martin Heidegger