Immediate knowledge
Organized complexity
Visual order
The backside of a sidewalk sign blends into the multifaceted urban geometric appearance presented by the morning sunshine.
“Organic change involves both growth and decline, while planned change is more asymmetric, frequently embodying growth but rarely dealing with decline.” – Michael Batty
Luxuriant exuberance
Mellifluous tones
Delicate wealth
As an axiom of empiricism, the cycle of life plays-out on an annual basis. We grasp the embryonic object in the essence embodied in an abstract idea, as a complete whole connected in a sequence of change.
“All day in the green, sunny orchard, when May was a marvel of bloom, I followed the busy bee-lovers down paths that were sweet with perfume.” – Margaret E. Sangster
Field of regard
Prospective viability
Visual aspect
A concern with small, perhaps trivial details is sometimes the direct result of observational proximity. Of course, it might also be possible that an inability to focus on important details of a situation comes from a fixation on the big picture.
“The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.” – Chris Pine
General conception
Amalgamation
Object absorbed
An attempted expression of thought and feeling is articulated by a composed representational relationship. In such encounters, dissimilar particulars are grasped as significant by association.
“Our logical analysis, in company with immediate intuition, enables us to discern a more special society within the society of pure extension.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Familiar routine
Scoops you up
Takes you along
Another cross-town automotive trip offers a few transient photo opportunities. Among many aesthetic intentions, the ‘High Way’ image series is a study of given contingencies and how to interpret them into something meaningful.
“When you get a groove going, time flies.” – Donald Fagen
Elaborately adorned
Renaissance design
Illustrious past
Rumored to be haunted by several ghosts, the Bentley Hotel features a magnificent lobby. For some unknown reason, the current management promulgates rules that limit photography. Specifically, they stipulate that dedicated cameras cannot be used, while cell phones cameras can. I suppose they think cell phones can only produce lousy, unusable images.
“Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.” – Robert Smithson
Strong referential
Evidence everywhere
Mythic dimension
Not only can we see negative absences of illumination, created by opaque physical objects as they obstruct incident light, we can also feel the presence of real positive shadows.
“The holographic attempt literally jumps over its shadow, and plunges into transparency, to lose itself there.” – Jean Baudrillard
Close-up scrutiny
Detailed investigation
Careful examination
The nature of the artist finds the mystery of nature the primary source of aesthetic inquiry. Seeking the precise meaning that consciousness gives to existence, observant moments of life are filled with creation.
“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” – Gerard De Nerval
Near horizon
Anticipated response
Transient’s pause
Stark and imposing, the city looms as a mechanistic organism in the late afternoon sun. For humans, organization is more important than the indefinite entities that coalesce into matter.
“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.” – Christopher Morley
Present occasion
Elimination of alternatives
Analogous considerations
While wandering around the city, language dictates unconscious presupposition of thought and at critical junctures governs behavior.
“Single words, each with its dictionary meaning, and single sentences, each bounded by full stops, suggest the possibility of complete abstraction from any environment.” – Alfred North Whitehead