Passing time
Huddle together
Some people stare
At the train station, lives intersect during travel interludes. Although it is most unfortunate when the voyage becomes monotonous, boredom is just a state of mind.
“Looks like I’m gonna have to wait a while. What the hell, I’m bored. What’s that there on the railway line.” – Harry Vanda
Escape itinerary
Spontaneous burst
Ecstatic temporality
Breaking from the past and the future, for a brief duration after the rain a luminous glow enveloped the town. A clean unburdened slate impartial to destiny, there was nothing ordinary transpiring in the wet streets.
“But the true voyagers are only those who leave just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons.” – Charles Baudelaire
Variation observations
Functionality overlap
Homologies and analogies
Settling into a comparative narrative open to experience, object encounters at sidewalk level stimulate aesthetic streams of contrast recognition. In the implicit detection of compositional regularities vs incongruities, perceptual associations, symbolism, and thematic issues are processed.
“If you hate difference, you’ll be bored to death.” – Toba Beta
Dynamic endurance
Inexhaustible richness
Complex interrelation
On a beach walk, instinctual feelings establish contact with existence in its organic vitality. Living interpretations and pluralistic meanings of abstract universals synthesize into a coherent whole.
“The true life is absent. But we are in the world. Metaphysics arises and is maintained in this alibi.” – Emmanuel Lévinas
Moving relations
Perceptually open
Continuous transition
Succeeding in compelling attention, various aspects of experience stimulate thought, establishing events that momentarily dominate the stream of consciousness. Conscious contents and unconscious contexts interweave to create an aesthetic response.
“Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.” – William James
Sensibility primacy
Concrete circumstances
Lucid account
Sometimes physical environments are of such unusual distinction as to inspire significant wonderment. The experience of awe can be self-transcendent when a stimulus exceeds expectations.
“Man lives in a world of meaning.” – George Herbert Mead
Awareness stream
Information context
Quality mediates
In the autumn, late afternoon sunlight illuminates a misanthropic commercial suburban complex. Providing a coherent sense of place, beauty mitigates existential malaise.
“Rather than try to sort the forms for the ones that please and avoid the ones that do not, is it possible for our simple awareness to move through the forms of our life, bring with it whatever change or integration is necessary?” – Steven Harrison
Intuit fulfillment
Freedom opening
Beyond possession
The artist seeks a dynamic understanding of existence. All journeys inherently involve transformation potential, extending the bounds of current understanding and awareness.
“I know now that my participation was conditioned on how well I learned to listen and to see the inherent patterns within the natural order I sensed.” – Jerry Wennstrom
Various conditions
Independent movement
Regenerative process
Any conception of the uniformity of nature is based on experience and the cerebral extension of that experience introducing modifications into apparent evidence. As time rolls on, a vast number of undiscovered facts lie all around.
“In the universe of energy, any individual thing is a pattern of activity within the flux, and thereby an organism at some level.” – William Barrett
Emotional accord
Authentic source
Spontaneous overflow
Rain smooths the edges of experience as senses are flooded with fresh impressions.
“The carnival traffic noise it sings the tune splashing up and even the ducks can groove rain bathing in the park side pool.” – Jimi Hendrix