Refresh
On the corner
Light life happening
Heart of downtown
Erected in 1950, this neon sign is now considered an important cultural artifact. In May of 2014, Coca-Cola completed a $20,000 restoration of the unique historical icon.
“The sign gives cause to pause and reflect on our history and applaud 66 years of collective efforts for progression that the city is experiencing today.” – Melanie Clark
Schlittz & Giggles
Silly name
Serious pizza
Boulevard sundown
An urban action excerpt from a fleeting Baton Rouge adventure.
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” – Elliott Erwitt
Syringa Vulgaris
Common lilac
Flowering plant
Widely naturalised
As an evolutionary visual signal of an abundance of nectar, perhaps pollinators are innately attracted to flowers based on beauty. In such a circumstance, aesthetic pleasure encourages activity independent of any cognitized immediate result. Basic instinct and environmental conditioning affect the possibility of free will.
“The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is – to bloom.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
Discernment
Radical opposition
Concept intuition
Process interpretation
Organized surface singularities found in the street in the form of cryptic symbols intricate the presence of hidden messages. The notion of significance multiplicity is understood in different ways.
“Thus, intuition may bring the intellect to recognize that life does not quite go into the category of the many nor yet into that of the one; that neither mechanical causality nor finality can give a sufficient interpretation of the vital process.” – Henri Bergson
Traits of Resemblance
Closed system
Visible exchange
Inspecting gaze
Optical perception bonds the subjectivity of artistic vision with the objectivity of external existence. At times, the experience amalgamation is extrinsic to the use of conceptual explication.
“For the double and even triple subjective filter through which that scene comes to us is not merely the consequence of a fortuitous
Intermediaries
Luminous intensities
Qualitative rhythm
Discrete multiplicity
Moving in close to study small botanical details advances life’s own domain, a reciprocal interpenetration that manifests in incessantly continued creation. External matter intimately participates in our conscious duration.
“We perceive the physical world and this perception appears, rightly or wrongly, to be inside and outside us at one and the same time; in one way, it is a state of consciousness; in another, a surface film of matter in which perceiver and perceived coincide.” – Henri Bergson
Intellectualization
Connotation of illusion
Attributed to the phenomenon
Of the transference
Things are in constant motion in the terminal. As meaning is questioned in a metaphysical puzzle, a point of connection is a juncture of opportunity.
“It is clear that this relation is established on a plane that is not reciprocal, not symmetrical.” – Jacques Lacan
Center City Concerto
Shimmering lights
Glide through darkness
Acquainted with the night
The streets are dynamically alive as the city moves into its nocturnal phase. Each social system manifests a variety of concentration modes, some of them ascendant and some behind the scenes.
“Each perspective for any one qualitative abstraction such as a number, or a color, involves an infinitude of alternative potentialities.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Columbine Flower
Indivisible melody
Dynamic progress
Multiplicity of elements
The backyard floral progression provides source material in furtherance of photographing the blooming phase for the specific purpose of entering a themed art show. The challenge is to express novelty in approach to understand the natural world.
“The object of art is to put to sleep the active or rather resistant powers of our personality, and thus to bring us into a state of perfect responsiveness, in which we realize the idea that is suggested to us and sympathize with the feeling that is expressed.” – Henri Bergson