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
Long gone reminder
Diverse grasslands
Periodic disturbance
The expansive American prairie’s demise was caused by human agricultural conversion. Plowing and cultivation of the native land compromised grass root systems and interrupted survival and renewal patterns.
“We have taken into our language the word prairie, because when our backwoodsmen first reached the land and saw the great natural meadows of long grass—sights unknown to the gloomy forests wherein they had always dwelt—they knew not what to call them, and borrowed the term already in use among the French inhabitants.” – Theodore Roosevelt
Action indicator
Constitutive reality
Pivotal motivation
Setting the stage for future possibilities, directional signage rapidly flashes-by overhead. Opening an imperative to collect experiences, elsewhere things are different from how things are here.
“Imagination may have a disruptive function. Its image in this case is productive, an imaging of something else, the elsewhere.” – Paul Ricoeur
Segmented paradigm
Tradition innovation
Schematizing function
Another stage of narrative imagination becomes a formative influence dominating appearances. Emphasizing architectural elements through color differentiation, the old town storefront facade takes on new life.
“Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.” – Jack Gardner
Wooden plank
Elevated footpath
Timber trackway
Crossing over fragile marshy wetlands, a commercial esplanade designed as a tourist attraction dominates the landscape. Humans tend to believe that they are the most important entities in the universe.
“Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?” – Saint Augustine of Hippo
Fundamental energy
Convincing exchange
Alternatives determined
In an aesthetic frame of mind, a sunrise over the ocean entails complex interpretation of spiritual dimensions.
“Even the most ordinary instance of perception relies on imagination.” – Richard Kearney
Encounter between
Obsequious dependency
Displacements
Constraining shaped things to serve specific intents, the shadowself extemporizes itself within a sunlit interior. In a living world, interactive networks extend far beyond the physical body and immediate surroundings.
“We cannot bear the thought of objects having an autonomous life, even if this life is ultimately attributable to us.” – Steven Shaviro
Winding waterway
Along shorelines
Marine grasses
Life reciprocates with the physical environment. Over millions of years, evolving species learn how to survive through varying existential conditions. Supporting rich environmental biodiversity on the sound side of the Outer Banks, much of the shoreline is bordered by prolific marsh grass.
“The habitats formed by seagrasses are home to many different creatures that make it a complex ecosystem.” – Aimee Lee
Analogous demonstrative
Quantifier extension
Context relativization
In a complex system of interrelated relationships, sometimes things outside the reference frame dominate meaning interpretation.
“It is commonly asserted that the photographic image is an indexical trace that, to quote Peirce’s famous definition, is ‘physically forced to correspond point by point to nature’.” – Janne Seppanen