During peak
Afternoon heat
Surface intensified
Sand is composed of tiny rock fragments, including quartz, feldspar, gypsum, basalt, and calcite, with a scattering of shell shards sometimes included. As the summer day progresses, sand receives solar energy via the process of radiation. Temperatures as high as 150°F can be attained, sufficient to inflict third-degree burns.
“People have blistered up and had to go to the hospital because of the burns on their feet.” – Gary Felsh
Desirable age
Previous era
Vintage unique
Stark urban sunshine illuminates vertical structural siding, emphasizing a rather imposing facade. The window security bars add an uninviting element of apprehension. I elected to forgo an evaluation of the collection of proffered castoff objects.
“Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Distinct ecosystem
Biologically diverse
Hydric soil
A wild and generally inaccessible wetland does an excellent job of biological diversity support, water storage and purification, carbon and nutrient processing, and shoreline stabilization.
“When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most impenetrable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum.” – Henry David Thoreau
Authentic parody
Evident pastiche
Surface images
Focusing in on details, incongruous messaging adorns a Mondrian-like harmony found on a cold winter day.
“The idealist and existentialist arguments for the centrality of the autonomous imagination have, sine the sixties, run the gauntlet of critical suspicion.” – Richard Kearney
Gentle lulling
Caressing waves
Standing by the sea
With many different moods and flavors variegating into its own depths, the sea swallows up the existent. Along the coast, freedom and imagination merge with the real.
“It roars like a lion, yet so calm and sincere, like a refined diamond. Much beauty lurks here.” – Isaac H.
Brilliant colors
Air so fresh
Life renewed
Emerging to greet the warming sun, new leaves begin to appear and cover traces of yesterday.
“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” – John Muir
What actually is
Bound to change
Beneath the surface
Symbols of experience, an inscribed message is a shape drawn inside another encounter. Circumscribed on the surface, indelible markings of time have a cultural dimension, with the meaning or interpretation of the image fluid.
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.” – Oscar Wilde
Narrative imagination
Hermeneutic circle
World of action
In general, understanding of each individual part is established by reference to the whole, while understanding as a whole is established by reference to individual parts.
“What is decisive is not to get out of the circle but to come into it the right way.” – Martin Heidegger
Oceanfront
High occupancy
Event houses
Often decisions regarding land use and development are made solely to benefit the short-term profit goals of investors and bureaucrats, with no consideration of negative impacts to current residents.
“Working together, we can preserve the legacy of our town’s founder and prevent over-development on the oceanfront and elsewhere.” – Gwendolyn Snyder Smuts
Find a home
See how it feels
Keep moving
No matter where you are, the earth continues to travel in space and time within an expanding universe. Certain fundamental aspects of existence are impossible to avoid.
“You have to stay where you are. But people have got this lust for life, and adventure, and a bit of color.” – Pete Townshend