Dune field
Ascending interval
Equilibrium height
An extensive, asymmetrical, fluctuating hill lacking vegetation, Jockey’s Ridge is the largest active sand dune in the eastern United States. The desert-like conditions can be quite severe.
“The winds blow from the northeast during the winter and from the southwest during the summer, so the sand is constantly blown back and forth, preventing it from blowing away entirely.” – Robin Hallac
Defy the universal
Categorize and label
Irresistible compulsion
Self integration into a geometrical moment establishes a close personal relationship to qualitative change. Real time is present.
“For current purposes only those things which exist at the present moment — now — really exist at all; and the only qualities which these things really possess are the qualities that they possess now.” – E. J. Lowe
Causal laws
Rational explanation
Universal particulars
Explaining phenomena is difficult when understanding is enclosed within the system of examination. Individual components contribute to an integrated whole in cognitive organizational schemes formulated to characterize existence.
“Metaphysics’ central concern is with the fundamental structure of reality as a whole.” – E. J. Lowe
Time passes
As it happens
Transfiguration
Sand drift variation emphasizes that somethings change rapidly. Associated unpredictably makes planning difficult even when accounting for instability. The way things are is not the way things will be.
“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.” – Stephen King
Various interactions
Component emergence
Layer entanglement
Appearance convolution packs into a small two-dimensional space on an urban excursion. Sidewalk windows are an organizing instrument nourishing an inquiring mind.
“Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience — to appreciate the fact that life is complex.” – M. Scott Peck
Contested landscape
Past slipping out
Histories bodies
Reader of dreams, make it a day that never ends.
“I am going down / Into the water / Where there are no stars.” – Jerry Lonecloud
Secluded beach
Gentle currents
Saltwater lagoon
Many miles of open water stretch between the Outer Banks barrier islands and the mainland, causing the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano on his 1524 voyage to mistake the Sound for the Pacific Ocean.
“A soundside experience differs from the ocean in wave action, water depths and currents.” – Molly Harrison
Wind transport
Obstacle forming
Geomorphology
The processes of wind erosion and granular particle material deposition on the coastal shoreline forms a complex ubiquitous terrain. Humankind desires to modify existence in an effort to conquer everything.
“Human Hubris is almost universal. There’s this perennial desire to control.” – James Rodger Fleming
All the swells
Uniquely identified
Summer brilliance
The essential nature of sand indicates the dynamic nature of change. Present moments are single stationary frames of a continuous shift from one state to another another. Transformation defines existence.
“Sand not only flows, but this very flow is the sand.” – Kobo Abe
Area definition
Rampart bastion
Encumbrance space
The freedom and experience of a spiritual sky appose the confining local extent of textural geometry.
“In passing through sensible appearances and in some way going behind them, we discover the mystery of things, the secret of the universe.” – Michel Henry