Abstract generalization
Linear independence
Vector spaces
Line shadows in the snow intersect and recombine in an aesthetically abstract mathematical realm. Multiple edges are considered as loopless matroids within finite nonempty sets of radiation defined objects.
“Two classes of objects are cryptomorphic if they are “really” the same thing but the link is not clear.” – Garrett Birkhoff
Structural integration
Topological margins
Domain theory
Bands of color mark areas of similar morphology. Any internal structure requires boundary establishment. Things are identified by and depend on other things in terms of functional relation, developmental evolution, and configuration.
“Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite. ” – Bernard Bolzano
Flow transitions
Empirical features
Speed and density
A traveling phase transition can be visualized as high way motion within a circulatory system smeared out across time. Randomness meets discretion at each passing moment, described by probability distributions.
“Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.” – James Gleick
Location orientation
Covered wagon dining
Middle of West Yellowstone
Addressing issues such as the perception and representation of space and place, expired license plates used as a decorative element embellishing a crude hand-paint park map serve as identification markers setting an environmental style.
“If two different authors use the words ‘red’, ‘hard’, or ‘disappointed’, no one doubts that they mean approximately the same thing . . . But in the case of words such as ‘place’ or ‘space’, whose relationship with psychological experience is less direct, there exists a far-reaching uncertainty of interpretation.” – Albert Einstein
In the light
Physical presence
Temperature interface
Natural phenomena become more miraculous with scarcity. Nature, in many circumstances, seems to work by a sort of secret magic.
“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir
Outside exploring
Construct internalize
Uncluttered fringe
Object relationships have their own reality detached from subjective emotions and life. The inherent intricacy and complexity of an idea can be revealed with very few elements. Less is often eminently refined.
“It isn’t necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality as a whole, is what is interesting. ” – Donald Judd
Complex interplay
Seasonal pattern
Tilted axis
Solar energy on display in the frozen winter landscape of the American west inspires aesthetic gratification. Snow cover helps to regulate the temperature of the Earth’s surface and replenish the water table.
“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” – Carl Reiner
Sacred ground
Nurturing realm
Internal reactions
A spirit of the landscape accumulates and evolves as an important way of participating. Experience of place is more than a static reproduction.
“I preferred to think that memory is never frozen, nor should it be.” – Maxwell Kosegarten
Detached pieces
Evaporate context
Rescue abstraction
Speeding through directional guidance systems, the dynamic interplay of existential forces impinges on consciousness. In the confusion of sensation, clearly somethings remain separate from their attributes.
“Imagination reintroduces into the isolated relation the idea of the related elements, but in a form in which they are only shadows of what we find in reality.” – Hans Vaihinger
Sort of acidic
Viscus effervescent
Clay-water mixture
Swirl patterns etched on hydric soil by slow-moving water appeals to the visual sense of beauty. Perhaps life evolved and dispersed across the planet from such a primordial ooze.
“There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy, and its charm.” – Theodore Roosevelt