Clear vision
Open vulnerability
Cognitive enhancement
Sometimes when proceeding in the zone of creativity, the artist feels more like an instrument rather than an agent. Regardless of how harmonious the whole might be fashioned, there is the underlying belief that things can yet be made even more euphonious.
“You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.” – Anna Deavere Smith
Cold beer
Easy access
Fair iteration
See and be seen. Copious amounts of bland beer offered at inflated prices remains a popular attraction at certain outdoor summer festivals.
“One reason why I don’t drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.” – Nancy Witcher Astor Viscountess
Inside the metropolis
Branches adjacent sky
Judiciously deployed
With a mixture of exhilaration and appreciation, a force of nature presents within the built environment as a harmonious self-arrangement of isolated facts into a whole. The power and glory of the tree is magnified in the urban landscape.
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.” – Hermann Hesse
Feeling formed
Unconscious thought
Fleeting evidence
Driving across the rural landscape can be hypnotically dreamlike, allowing feeling to have its way before reason manifests. Prolonged passive contemplation of the vanishing scenery results in a sequence of instantaneous inspirations.
“Some ephemeral moments must be given a memory, because the temporality of an instant may radiate a twinkle of eternity.” – Erik Pevernagie
Ripe cherries
Bursting straight
From the tree
It is particularly satisfying to pick and eat fruit directly from the tree. Like all good things, the experience is ephemeral while the memory enduring.
“Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.” – Paul Klee
Starting to glow
Close to sunset
Immediate conviction
Some aesthetic experience is marked by an almost total lack of verbal delineation accompanied with a profusion of visual mental eminence. Looking out the hotel window, ideas come and go in a multitude of vaguely connected meditations. Freed from any immediate necessity for activity, such isolated thoughts synthesize without intention.
“Passion is a bridge from possibility to probability.” – T.F. Hodge
Traversing space
Covering distance
Individual pursuit
Bike riding in the city becomes part of the background ambient environment, blending in with the overall amalgamation of sights and sounds. Understanding existence requires the grasping of extensive networks of metaphorical composites.
“Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
Energy tracing
Flow potential
Conversion chains
Magical moments frequently transpire during ordinary circumstances. While driving across a foreign landscape on a stormy night, dancing lights adorn the horizon. Finding unrecognized relationships by combining ideas and images is powered by imagination.
“As most developers know, it’s difficult to tune a system without understanding the system’s state.” – Rich Templeton
Flooded sunlight
Geometrical filigree
In the city now
Aesthetic prospecting within an unfamiliar city bathed in resplendent sunlight is exhilarating. Developing a philosophy of reconnaissance is an important phase in becoming a more effective explorationist.
“There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.” – Norris, Kathleen
Circumscribed space
Unyielding determination
Environmental compliance
The vicissitudes of existence are revealed as particular entities retain their identity in a continuously changing flux. One of the gratifying inquiries available to photographers is the opportunity to reexamine the same subject under diverse conditions over time.
“This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called ‘natural selection’, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life.” – Herbert Spencer