Red shoe barn
Wilken music
Stone laser imaging
Historic downtown offers a plethora of well-maintained vintage buildings containing shops and restaurants rich in vigor and entrepreneurial spirit.
“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” – Pearl Buck
External raw stuff
Inner life enrichment
Disinterested nourishment
Present in the moment, essence is revealed when distanced from intentional advantage. Disrupting the cognitive map, thinking outside the box is always experimental.
“By standing over the world, questioning it, prying into it, one may discover principles and laws.” – Max Schoen
Dune fortification
Erosion persists
On the move
Near continuous winds whip over the barrier islands, shifting sand as as natural process of geological progression. Tropical storms and hurricanes accelerate the kinetic processes of beach evolution. There are obvious limits to mankind’s control.
“These beaches were never meant to be static. This is the most dynamic geological process on the planet. It can, and it does, change overnight.” – Danny Couch
Packaged goods
Grocery decisions
Paying for shopping
Long lines and a slow checkout process are crucial factors influencing a shopper’s experience. Fortunately such an occurrence can be converted into an aesthetic medium. The values of creative products are the reverse of the values of the practical.
“All great work is indistinct . . . Excellence of the highest kind without obscurity cannot exist.” – John Ruskin
Rhythmic relations
Tension counterpoint
Relentless spirit
Effects from a cause, external fragmentary experience is always sequential, transitory, and partial. Responding to stimulus, incomplete sensory information from an impersonal world is transformed into a uniquely distinctive mental construct. Under certain internal and external conditions, a fantastic rhapsodic dream manifests.
“The form must so fit the content, the mater must so clothe the ideas, that the two are merged, wedded, and united to a point when matter loses its identity by becoming idea.” – Max Schoen
Built in 1936
Uptown Theatre
Closed for 42 years
Heed the past. There appears to be enough left for a renovation project.
“I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see – you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.” – Bob Balaban
Twin trestle
Water transverse
Highway network
At the mouth of the James River, the Monitor–Merrimac Memorial Bridge–Tunnel connects the independent Virginia cities of Newport News (north end) and Suffolk (south end). The bridge portion is 4.6 miles long crossing an impressive expanse of tidal water slowly flowing into the Chesapeake Bay.
“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.” – John Ruskin
Flowing cape
Motion illusion
Costume adornment
An advertising enterprise uses the tag line “wear your victory cape” as self advertising. Channeling Superman’s assurance, never doubt fictional superhero abilities. Somehow this advice is creatively crafted to inspire confidence in brand planning, advertising, digital marketing and public relations.
“There is a superhero in all of us, we just need the courage to put on the cape.” – Superman
Physical object
Proprioceptive relationship
Visual feedback
Manifesting object relationships in space and time that interact and impact other entities, the shadowself always sticks closely to the surrounding material environment.
“With practice we can learn to engage these types of heightened states and see new opportunities for interpretations in our thoughts, emotions, and conversations.” – Gary van Warmerdam
High speed
Vehicular road traffic
Pass through
In addition to obstacle peregrination, the process of tunneling enables an assorted range of physical phenomena in three dimensions, including radioactive decay, semiconductor and superconductor behavior, and surface material scanning at the atomic level.
“Enlightenment is like quantum tunneling – when everyone sees walls and barriers, enlightened one sees infinite possibilities.” – Amit Ray