Bewitched while
The sun shines
Edges of cultivation
A distinctive form of temporality emerges in the backyard. This year our apple tree was especially full of blossoms. As an understanding and lived experience of time, they only lasted about a week.
“The earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Particular conclusion
Appropriate evidence
Exhibit a common pattern
Driving through the Louisiana night and into the future, physical objects manifest as physical objects, thought transpires as thought, and the past is behind.
“Our experiences themselves are neither certain nor uncertain; they simply occur.” – A. J. Ayer
Actual intricacies
Peculiar perplexities
Frame an account
Thinking in terms of time and space forming qualitative differences in conscious states, here atmospheric contingencies blend with surface elements to present an unusual visual presentation to the passing traveler.
“It is another property of the human mind that whenever men can form no idea of distant and unknown things, they judge them by what is familiar and at hand.” – Giambattista Vico
Careful examination
Evaluation exercise
Scrutiny station
It is complicated when attempting to understand how a sensible object conveys meaning. Occasionally there are elements resident in a sensuous medium that are curiously capable of standing for something else.
“An event mirrors within itself the modes of its predecessors, as memories which are fused into its own content.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Most general sense
Audience encounter
Temporary episode
The flow of sensory experience arises out of a radically embodied manifestation of momentary presence. By making art at the venue for exhibiting art, the aesthetic loop coheres.
“As humans we look at things and think about what we’ve looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.” – Thom Gunn
Special position
Mere subjectivity
Outright objectivity
Pinning down momentary experience with some accuracy is here effortlessly facilitated. By reducing visual sensation along pure regions of abstraction, imprecise standards for evaluating and constructing artworks evolve.
“The combination and harmony of the two faculties of cognition, those of sensibility and understanding, which, though, doubtless, indispensable to one another, do not readily permit of being united without compulsion and reciprocal infringement, must have the appearance of being undersigned and a spontaneous occurrence–otherwise it is not fine art.” – Immanuel Kant
Cheerful little flower
Designated undesirable
Surviving all difficulties
Every part of the tenacious dandelion is expedient and can variously be used as food, medicine, dye, and/or for aesthetic enjoyment. So why is it considered a weed? Perhaps it is time to abandon the unnatural quest for uniform grass lawns.
“The tarashaquq is like chicory.” – Al Razi
Basic arrangement
Fragmentary form
Particular instances
Yielding to outside pressure, in a small corner of the city several lives play out on the stage presented. Here such entanglements receive the aesthetic attention they deserve.
“Being alone is and nothing is not.” – Parmenides
Internal states
Separate whole
Instantly older
Driving into an illumination transition, the state of contiguous existence is nothing but change. By tracing the apparent discontinuity of psychical life as acts of attention, through intentionality we perceive discrete stages.
“A slight effort of attention would reveal to me that there is no feeling, no idea, no volition which is not undergoing change every moment: if a mental state ceased to vary, its duration would cease to flow.” – Henri Bergson
Various aspects
Could be anywhere
No special relationship
A sense of place can be experienced in many different ways. Sometimes where you are is incidental to the aesthetic experience of being somewhere. At that moment, a form of generic indistinguishably becomes the defining component of place.
“Whenever you get there, there is no there there.” – Gertrude Stein