Monthly Archives: July 2018

Infrastructure

Requisite physical system
Organizational facility
Enterprise operation

Much of the developed world is formed around ossified infrastructure. It is expensive to maintain and improve extensive existing infrastructure. The city creates its own inertia, as infrastructure generates more infrastructures that are similar. What currently subsists limits adaptability to progress.

“Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They’re the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.” – Rick Yancey

Spiraea

Arching stems
Cascading flowers
Foundation planting

My old house features a yard full of legacy plants that bloom in a progression of color and texture.

“Use spirea in a mixed or shrub border, as a groundocver, in a rock garden, or as hedging, depending on growth habit.” – Steve Aitken

Discursive Rationalism

Beyond this fragmentation
Individual interaction
Mediations and rectifications

A large reflective architectural structure in the city helps us to grasp recursive qualitative distinctions. The search for causes in a complex circumstance always has a reaction on the task of description.

“Above all we must recognize the fact that new experience says no to old experience, otherwise we are quite evidently not up against a new experience at all.” – Gaston Bachelard

Residential Canal

Water conveyance
Synthetic reservoir
Seasonal variations

A desirable river resource can be augmented by building a series of small extensions into the surrounding embankments.

“Stay focused and channel your little efforts through a common canal and you will marvel at the amount of pressure you create in that canal.” – Israelmore Ayivor

Roux House

Iconic venue
Gastropub hot spot
Cosmetic in nature

Fading signs painted on the sides of buildings often outlive their subject matter. The city is in constant flux as a physical response of occasion cadence at an organic level.

“We’re tying this all together, these chef-driven meals with delicious sweet treats and cocktails.” – Ian Vaughn

Reductive Niche

Dynamic rhythm
Equivalent equilibrium
Position channel

Exteriority not merely is, but becomes known when the city absorbs the subject as part of an abstract pattern. At such moments, visual amalgamation seems quite desirable as an extraction of pure extension.

“The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.” – Piet Mondrian

Exit Only

Way out
Leaving a place
Exclusively inevitably

Approaching uncertainty at high speed is an occurrence of direct intuitive observation capable of abridgement to a sensational formula.

“An exit is just an easy way out.” – Anthony T. Hincks

Analogous Discontinuity

Competing currents
Practical conventions
Dialectical duration

The intelligence analytically and scientifically apprehends an abstracted reality, while intuition grasps an experienced reality psychologically and spiritually. Although physical science provides practical knowledge, such knowledge is a manufactured, static construct of reality extracted from its dynamic completeness.

“If consciousness has to split up into intuition and intelligence, it is because of the need it had to apply itself to matter at the same time as it had to follow the stream of life. The double form of consciousness is due to the double form of the real.” – Henri Bergson

Fashionable Feelings

Flower assemblage
Pale violet wash
Morning glow

Just a few steps from my doorway, the annual lilac blossom spectacle was ephemeral but enjoyable. Transient events are often intensified by their very evanescence.

“Within the purple color family, there are clear winners and losers.” – Katy Kelleher

Floaters

Poolside sheen
Shimmering pearlescent
Luminous luster

The fundamental act of observation reveals instance after instance of complicated simplicity. In this iteration, the inflatable swim noodle and tube floats are illuminated with high intensity radiation, as the morning summer sun is both dazzling and therapeutic.

“Beneath the surface lies a network of roots.” – Carol Oates

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