Absolute values
Appetency towards
Neural response
There is often a heightened sense of awareness associated with acute engagement in the allure of the moment. In the interest of intuition, experience is intensified by recording observation in an active visual description.
“Beauty is the mutual adaptation of the several factors in an occasion of experience.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Terms of space
Precise distinctions
Duration simultaneity
Walking over a freeway overpass in the city, a protective barrier provides a manifold of sensations that can be synthesized into a simple and complex optical pleasure. As light signals received from the external world are continuously converted into internal models, composite visual layering and associated transformations contribute to multi-linear narrative outcomes.
“In the immense majority of cases, we decide about the intensity of the effect without even knowing the nature of the cause.” – Henri Bergson
Uniquely regional
Dining area
Saloon annex
Whenever I deliver artwork to the Buttonwood Art Space for a show, I also like to get a barbecue lunch before driving back home. This particular Gates location features an interesting narrow room full of bright windows directly adjacent to an energetic Main Street.
“Our full intention is to shine things up; make things where you’re comfortable.” – Ollie Gates
Competing entities
Vying for control
All-time high
In an occasion of urban experience, several factors contribute to the mutual conjure of contradicting emotions adjusting to a sense of place. The frequency of exposure always remains a potent influence over responsiveness.
“Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck.” – Raymond Chandler
Enveloping layer
Integumentary system
Appearance impression
On an urban walkabout, pattern overlays intensify and abstract the inner-city environment. An experiential process, becoming aware is the key to seeing and expressing the essential quality of a particular encounter.
“Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight.” – Teju Cole
Weird vibe
Pseudo retro
Ice cream cafe
A reconstructed and embellished memory, this creamery attempts to emulate a classic diner interior featuring chrome fixtures, a coin-operated jukebox, strange color lighting, and a luncheonette. The entire experience seems clinically counterfeit. Woolworth’s it is not.
“You will be paying for the looks and fancy expensive take-out containers.” – Heather R.
Things rotate
Surrounding mass
Separated by force
Some accoutrements can always be anticipated at the state fair, where a respite from the habitual routine is replaced by temporary revelry opportunity.
“You loved Ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn’t be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.” – Amy Harmon
View from the seat
Empathetic color
Brought to life
While eating a hamburger at a trendy brew house, the contrast provided by unique transitional boundaries creates a very chromatic atmosphere. Vigour of mind exercised, color is a force that immediately influences the spirit.
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
In quick relation
Matter of movement
Speed comes to dominate
Packed inside different specifics, just on the other side of the eatery window, vehicles rapidly traverse in a synthetic technological environment. Points of reference serve to orient space and time at the speed of light. High velocities illuminate reality.
“Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.” – Paul Virilio
Functioning art
Purposive appearance
Feature arrangement
Even when form follows function as the primary consideration, aesthetics enters into the creative process. The prompt to design something different within a familiar artifact category results from the combined experience of all the previous examples.
“The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.” – J.G. Ballard