City street
Poetic power
Absorbing adventure
Light and shadow relationships define the transitory moment, as all worldly contact can assume creative possibilities. On any given intersection encounter, object demarcations merge into an amalgamation of imagination.
“Every great imaginative conception is a vortex into which everything under the sun may be swept.” – John Livingston Lowes
Idaho winter
Across the valley
Suspended animation
There is something emotionally compelling felt during periods of temporary metabolic inactivity.
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
Deciduous bloom
Equally fragrant
Lilac bush
Over the course of decades, the naturalized Syringa vulgaris shrub may produce a small clonal thicket. The Latin term vulgaris indicates something common, frequent, and prevalent. In perception of the actual, sensations integrate a corresponding belief in associative qualities, belonging to external objects.
“The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.” – Margaret Millar
Poetic tone
Spiritual style
Ocean counterpoint
With extremities cooling-off in the sea, carefree days of summer are sanctioned while offering solace and inspiration. The ocean is never still, as waves transmit energy across a holistic marine basin. The place where life ultimately began, capricious aquatic demarcations are a consummate divination.
“In the summertime when the weather is hot, you can stretch right up and touch the sky.” – Ray Dorset
Soul seeking
Realization development
Locational evaluation
Lighting conditions and speed of encounter are critical components in the continuum of visual experience. Inferring true physical consistence is often impossible, but unnecessary for successful an adaptive response. Of course, explaining the nature of truth becomes an application of meaningful metaphysical presuppositions along the way.
“Everything the artist touches may at some future time turn into artistic gold, so that his whole life is a preparation for his work, all his experiences are raw material for creation, all his contacts with the world assume creative possibilities.” – Max Schoen
Varied expression
Narrative inflections
Unity of effect
On an urban walkabout, aesthetic material seems to spring fully mature from the forms and energy of the constructed environment. Artwork is built from the stuff of experience, as new ideas are extracted from the timeworn.
“To the creative mind the creative activity does not appear so much as a process, a sequence of happenings, a growth culminating in a fruition, as a mere occurrence, a sudden appearance in the form of an illumination, or inspiration.” – Max Schoen
Sky above
Sand below
Coastal colors
Penetrating the surface of experience, the sea possesses a potent power to stimulate pleasant thought on another welcome encounter with the dynamic shoreline. Certain physical boundaries always encourage aesthetic wonder.
“Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.” – John Tyndall
Mutual indications
Simultaneous division
Isolation separates
Taking the form of an aesthetic attitude toward all things, this found ‘Mondrian’ incorporates reflective rectangles in its compositional motif.
“All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.” – Bryant McGill
Space interval
Continuity divergence
Surface cleft
Thermal punctuation is here situated on the edge of a hot spring pool, as extreme conditions steam in the sunshine on a winter morning. An artistic aesthetic response depends on how deeply guidance is gained through experience.
“Somber Yellowstone Park and its colored hot springs, baby geysers, rainbows of bubbling mud – symbols of my passion.” – Vladimir Nabokov
Material surface
Incident radiation
Diffuse and specular
Appearance symmetry is perceived as a function of visual sensation functioning. With compete understanding limited by capacity, aesthetics responds outwardly to every pressure while retaining an inner sensitivity, knowing that reality can be illusionary.
“Reflection comes between us and every other person and object in the world.” – John O’Donohue