Monthly Archives: August 2018

Nothing More

Sensation exercise
Compound function
Claims to reality

Although contentment is generally achieved when experience is choreographed by order, the presence of disorder offers encouragement in the pursuit for aesthetic gratification. In the vast cosmic framework of causal influence that affects every juncture, establishing an unaccustomed disposition exhilarates.

“In the work of art the relativity becomes the harmony of the composition, and the absoluteness is the claim for separate individuality advanced by component factors.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Apprehension Appreciation

Eminently transfuse
Experience expression
External sympathy

Just about any flower is experienced as an objective target that seems to universally elicit feelings of elegance. Along with truth, justice, and goodness, beauty traditionally has been considered among the ultimate of ecumenical values.

“Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. Images are its only wealth. It does not classify objects, it does not pronounce them real or imaginary, does not qualify them, does not define them; it feels and presents them.” – Benedetto Croce

Security

Freedom from
Resilience against
External powers

City row houses here feature formidable wrought iron gates. People that are in potential direct danger from local hostile forces seem to understand the value of protection. If we lock the doors to our houses to establish control of access, why should we not also control the borders of our country?

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” – James Baldwin

Matter of Time

Physical properties
Visual fragments
Complete rumination

By engaging multiple perspective encounters, working with energy and time in the spatial depths of the material city, urban architecture takes on new relationships to the aesthetic observer. Appearances are in constant flux, with certain moments and juxtapositions especially affecting.

“The steel and the space, or the object and the void, become one and the same.” – Richard Serra

Grandstand

Fairgrounds venue
Behind the scene
In afternoon light

Just on the other side of this impressive structure there emits clamorous noise. No real need to buy a ticket for the musical acts.

“Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life. ” – Jackie Robinson

Wink of an Eye

Fleeting moment
Passing landscape
Temporal boundaries

Abandoned structures that persist, long after their usefulness has expired, stimulate reflection. The unknown shapes existence, as time and being are both inescapable and mysterious.

“Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former – Being – be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter – time – be addressed as a being.” – Martin Heidegger

Preliminary Proceeding

Before Crowds
Light ensemble
Opportunity emerges

Free from the swarming throng, as the transient carnies set-up the midway rides on the day before the State Fair starts, I test out my camera in anticipation of future action. The carny goal is to accumulate money, while my goal is to capture images in support of aesthetics.

“I kind of like things slightly out of tune. It makes me feel… intoxicated almost… but in a good way. Like I’m at a carnival in a dream.” – Christine Anderson

Corn Rinks

Fair accoutrements
Ceremonial victuals
Excessive price

Late summer arrives and another State Fair is imminent. Photographing this annual venue is an obligatory aesthetic pilgrimage that has become rather problematic. I hope that overly aggressive police that enforce non-existent laws restricting artistic freedom will not blemish this iteration.

“They spent the next hour nibbling their way through the food stalls, sharing spiral-cut potatoes, pork sandwiches, and cream puffs.” – Amy E. Reichert

Urban Elegance

Dignified propriety
Pleasingly graceful
Stylish appearance

An organic form is here accentuated by high intensity radiation reflecting off a manufactured architectural structure in the metropolis backdrop. Such an appearance brings to light questions concerning the nature of natural. In its most broad sense, to be natural must include all matter and all forces acting on matter. Thus along with energy, the appurtenances of the biological world, including humans and the convergences of their society, are all natural.

“But we call that clear knowledge which comes, not from our being convinced by reasons, but from our feeling and enjoying the thing itself, and it surpasses the other by far.” – Baruch Spinoza

Second Reflection

Broadest sense
Theatrical implications
Extreme consciousness

Arbitrarily frequenting an approximate spatial location in the metropolis, similar ambient lighting conditions stimulate a reciprocal aesthetic response. Nevertheless, each individual event is its own standard, open to feeling and enjoyment as an isolated duration.

“It seems that expectation creates a void in us, that it prepares the resumption of being, and helps us to understand destiny; in short, expectation makes temporal frameworks in order to receive memories.” – Gaston Bachelard

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