Collaborative space
Competitive edge
Walking distance
On an evening walk around Alexandra, the light became magical as the local birds activate.
“Anything in existence, having somehow come about, is continually interpreted anew, requisitioned anew, transformed and redirected to a new purpose.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Retention space
Standing reserve
Future consumption
During an extended expedition across the southland, a non-transitory, semi-permanent containment repository passes by. These bins hold previous harvests with the intention of retrieving them for future use. Heidegger argues that we now view nature only as raw material for technical operations.
“Strictly speaking I myself never observe the landscape. I experience its hourly changes, day and night, in the great comings and goings of the season.” – Martin Heidegger
Believe in absurdities
Persistent delusion
Potent force
Religious marginalia found during an urban exploration illustrates basic questions of existence. Mystery is inherent in both the nature of things and the nature of rationality, as explanations consistently exceed the limits of comprehension.
“The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.” – Mark Twain
Synthesize insights
Chance opportunism
Combinatorial creativity
Circumscribing the immediate predicament during an excursion through the airport terminal, the available visual information is marshaled, correlated and reduced into specific inquires. In active imagination, intelligent conjectures respond by considering many possible hypotheses.
“Anyone with an alertness of mind will encounter during the course of an investigation numerous interesting side issues that might be pursued.” – W. I. B. Beveridge
Mostly symbolic
National register
Preservation import
The question is not whether and how the assemblage of phenomena and the series of causes and effects, which we call the course of nature, has become actual outside us. The question rather relates to how succession becomes manifest for us.
“The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.” – John Locke
Realistic emphasis
Ontological fluency
Material assistance
The belief in an external reality arises and grows with self awareness. Because the self is as necessary as the other, these beliefs are not speculatively separated. In their fullest, most intimate co-operation they are the mental elements of human life and its activity.
“The provincialism of time may be conquered only in the realm of mind.” – Edgar Sheffield Brightman
Spiritual thoughts
Corporeal works
Productive force
Philosophy must understand the manifestation of ideas through particular things, with the history of art as a series of variously emphasized relations of the real to the ideal. Art is the positive objectification of the spirit of nature that is within human beings, analogous to nature’s own generation of phenomena, a crystalline, symmetrical totality.
“By what power is the soul created together with the body, at once and as if with one breath?” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Real ideal
Existence appearance
Matter within the mind
For Schelling, an achieved work of art is the embodiment of the ideal within the real, not merely something through which the mind recognizes its own powers of judgment. This position is in response to Kant’s sole aesthetic interest only involving judgment. Kant’s aesthetics is never derived from things in the world, but rather concerned with transcendental faculties of the mind.
“Matter, in our view, is an aggregate of ‘images.’ And by ‘image’ we mean a certain existence which is more than that which the idealist calls a representation, but less than that which the realist calls a thing–an existence placed half-way between the `thing’ and the ‘representation.’.” – Henri Bergson
Affecting stimuli
Aroma conscience
Volatilized compounds
Many overt messages that quickly pass-by on an urban exploration are value propositions of dubious esteem. Only actions that are freely willed are seen as deserving credit or blame.
“Each day has a color, a smell.” – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Coefficient affinity
Situated in relation
Introduced extension
There exists a tension between the conceptual as manifest in art and the incipient foundation of unconscious elements. Within a dispersed finite existence, self-identity provides an indirect conduit to the ineffable.
“All means are sacred when they are dictated by inner necessity.” – Wassily Kandinsky