Methodically Impulsive
Arrangement conception
Saturated imagination
Individual varieties
After a passing storm, selective illumination sometimes creates a narrative bringing to life both subject content and the manner of its presentation.
“Art is a second creator of nature; it has, as it were, added another world to the former one, given it a perfection that the other in itself does not possess; and becoming united with nature, it each day creates new miracles.” – Baltasar Gracian
Road Elegance
Element mix
Transitional rhythm
Harmonic language
A magical ambience claims mental energy as night descends on the journey. Possibilities for perceptual meaning transcend the ordinary.
“At the root of all creativity one finds the possession of something that is more than earthly fruit.” – Igor Stravinsky
Tension Energy
Higher level
Without precision
Intimate immensity
The sea as a physical threshold is inexhaustible in its ability to psychically stimulate a sense of liberation. Layers of perception mediate positioning between emotional and intellectual experience.
“We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world.” – David Attenborough
Uncertain Distinctness
Intricate nature
Glint of brightness
Intriguing ambiguity
Obscuring much of the lake, large trees extend right up to the reservoir shore. Beyond any apparent functional use, abstract glimpses and interpretation encourage an aesthetic experience.
“The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.” – Milan Kundera
Causality Work
Original footbridge
Adjacent to
Currituck sound
Notions of change, agency, and the role of material requirements in earthly affairs arise from historic renovations. The present always incorporates decisions, forces, and provisions that activate current circumstances.
“Rational metaphysics teaches that man becomes all things by understanding them … imaginative metaphysics shows that
man becomes all things by not understanding them … for when he does not understand he makes the things out of himself and becomes them by transforming himself into them.” – Giambattista Vico
Equilibrium
Narrow sense
Sublime fullness
Experience workings
The ocean stimulates primal feelings. In a biological sensory exchange, physical manifestations translate into aesthetic experience at a constitutive site unifying material and mental environments.
“Experience is a product, one might almost say bi-product, of continuous and cumulative interaction of an organic self with the world.” – John Dewey
At the Dawn
New time period
Feeling of power
For the morning
Across an infinite time and cosmos, natural cyclic change offers the hope of eternal revitalization. In a perpetual sequence of novel phases, built on an ever expanding past, the only constant is the process.
“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.” – Henry David Thoreau
Natural Functions
Rainy day
Come round
Soothing component
A gentle rain washes off the dust of routine appearances, giving rise to a cleansing effect associated with sentiments of renewal and liberation.
“Then there was rain, this town’s foundations are crumbling, to the ground comes a bit of a tumbling, and time just floated away.” – Christopher Anthony
Emphasis Shift
Active agent
Modern material
Fundamental analysis
By spreading radiant energy response out over time and space, invisible but real workings of nature are uncovered. The undulations of light stretch through a spectrum of many octaves.
“This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world – it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people.” – El Lissitzky