Concrete predication
Unity multiplicity
Hypostatization
A speculative system is a domain of organic reciprocity in which content and form, or subject matter and methodology, cannot be arbitrarily isolated, but rather meditate one another.
“Art ever and again continues to speak to us of what philosophy cannot depict in external form, namely the unconscious element in acting and producing, and its original identify with the conscious.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
External determination
Sensible manifold
Relation function
Natural volition is necessarily framed by accumulated contingencies. Dormant brown fields await the warmth of spring to vault into action. A materialistic and fatalistic view must be offset by an idealistic view of vivacious province.
“We felt it now to be in our power to make indefinite progress in this new inventory of the world.” – William T. Harris
Rudimentary presentation
Cognitive phenomena
On its own as will
Light emerges from the spirited shadows on a rural country road during the blue hour. Speculative photography entails experimentation, as the objective is annexed to the subjective.
“All knowledge is founded upon the coincidence of an objective with a subjective. For we know only what is true; but truth is generally taken to consist in the coincidence of presentations with their objects.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Production facility
Chemical engineering
Unit processes
In terms of economic impact and environmental ambience, the oil and gas industry is one of the prominent industries in the Pelican State. Details matter in energy expenditure.
“The revealing that rules in modern technology is a challenging, which puts to nature the unreasonable demand that it supply energy that can be extracted and stored as such.” – Martin Heidegger
River overlook
Watch the sunset
Over delta levees
In downtown Baton Rouge, a one-mile waterfront promenade offers interesting views of the setting sun. The reality and ultimacy of nature is in full display as the mighty Mississippi River indifferently flows by.
“The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time.” – Norman Maclean
Honorable dignity
Firm determination
Long-term resilience
Duncan Plaza is a small public park in New Orleans located not far from our hotel of temporary lodging. An underutilized green space across from City Hall, it functions as a convergence locus that connects several distinct and diverse downtown neighborhoods, including the homeless.
“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.” – Aristotle
Material universe
Notion of motion
Original exposition
Moving through space and time on the fringes of civilization, long shutter speeds blur reality into an illusionistic experience. Because we only see energy patterns, the theory or doctrine that the material world is a delusion has merit. Perceivable objects are simply shallow shells hiding a deeper underlying reality.
“Not only do the moments of this duration seem to be external to one another, like bodies in space, but the movement perceived by our senses is the, so to speak, palpable sign of a homogeneous and measurable duration.” – Henri Bergson
Luminous abstraction
Cultural center
Straddle the boundary
In New Orleans, a twilight view from the sixth floor of the Le Pavillon Hotel overlooks One Shell Square.
“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.” – Christopher Morley
Particular phenomena
Succession proceeds
Through freedom
Spinoza could not tolerate separation between ideas and things outside us. In his formulation, Ideal thought and real objectivity are intimately united in our nature. They are only modifications of one and the same ideal nature, an infinite from which arose affections and modification of an endless series of finite things.
“The ideal world presses mightily towards the light, but is still held back by the fact that Nature has withdrawn as a mystery.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Silent procession
Field behind stable
Thoroughbred strain
The secret of creation is to seize sharply the opposition between the particular and the universal. In the same indivisible act, simultaneously grasp the former in the latter and the latter in the former.
“Horses make a landscape look beautiful.” – Alice Walker