Between rail and ship
Transloading facility
Conveyor system
For better and for worse, mankind exercises large-scale control over natural resources to support extensive populations. Continued investments in processing equipment and in capacious production are required.
“To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.” – Roald Dahl
External world
Immediate awareness
Ones own living
A terrestrial extremity articulation, the ocean presents itself as a revelation of existence. As both unity coherence and an intensification of perceived physical boundary discontinuances, experienced sensations structure mental organizing activity.
“Life designates a pure manifestation, always irreducible to that of the world, an original revelation that is not a revelation of another thing and does not depend on anything other, but is rather a revelation of that absolute self-revelation that is Life itself.” – Michel Henry
Long distance trek
Walk here and there
Catch planes departing
The airport terminal encounter is usually a rush of focused movement in a crowd of human animation. Current sensory experience is obsequiously eschewed as passengers are fixated on being somewhere else.
“We wander in the ambient noise, checking one more time for the flight coupon, the boarding pass, the visa.” – Don DeLillo
Flexible series
Tensile strength
External restrain
Beyond conventionality, the splendor of the moment emanates to concentrate all attention on abstract thought within subjective experience as an immediate awareness of being.
“You never know when one seemingly unrelated event may become the catalyst that sets off a chain of synchronistic events.” – Andrea Goeglein
Unconscious impulse
Largely indifferent
Purely indefinite
Something within art must seize and arouse an emotional element in order to transform, giving expression beyond normal boundaries. When aesthetically attuned to the physical environment, affecting force is returned to the subject by the object.
“Works of art rise like islands from a current of more pragmatic concerns.” – Mike Mallory
Diminutive flowers
Petal-like bracts
Involucre surround
Nature is a continuious advancing manifestation of the external and objective in temporal terms of the perodic and subjective. Change is relentless and any complacent stability is an illusion.
“Sometimes Mother Nature has the answers when you do not even know the questions.” – Keith Wynn
Central reservation
Opposing lane separation
Divided highway
From the forms that delineate the temporal happenstance of existence, the artist must select those circumstances sympathetic to individual visceral articulation. This activity reflects the innate desire to create objective outward evidence aimed to harmoniously express inner need.
“The artist must be blind to distinctions between ‘recognized’ or ‘unrecognized’ conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.” – Wassily Kandinsky
Articulation distinction
Acclimatizing density
Process of formation
Going beyond object aggregation to interpret empirical facts, the artist is liberated to employ whatever form expression demands, building meaning from transitory contact. Perceived truth is inseparable from essential structure.
“Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.” – Theodor W. Adorno
Symphonic form
Irresistible movement
Primitive variations
Just prior to dawn, an immediate impression of external nature stimulates a spontaneous inner expression largely instinctive. The constraints of form are generators of imagination, developing categorization by ascribing relations to pattern cognizance.
“That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.” – Wassily Kandinsky
Happening operation
Forms combine
Particles of attainment
Creative thought supplied by sensation penetrates the sequential transient surface of experience into its interior nucleus. By a process of intuition, the new emerges out of the old.
“Sensation is an abstraction, not a replication, of the real world.” – Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle