Shape shifting
Thought pattern
Light plays across
The beach elicits a relaxed and natural peacefulness, rejuvenating mind and body. Sensitive to the beautiful varieties of ambient light and sound, the total scene tends to promote an active calmness.
“Sustained effort ends in effortless being. One must enter into the rhythm of one’s own true nature.” – Ananda Moyi Ma
Looking forward
Enjoyable engagement
Within the background
Revealing action on the stage nearby, escape is imminent in motion no farther away than beyond the trees.
“That road doesn’t really have a destination, of course, but there are some nice views along the way, and that’s what did me good.” – Neil Peart
Time and distance
Inevitable changes
Carrying on
Knowing that certain things are true does not assure acceptance. Nevertheless, expect organic adaptation to new circumstances.
“We can’t change what is, or its effects on us and our view of life.” – Neil Peart
Whatever was
Assumption element
Former life
Moving within the pattern of nature, meditation often seems to revolve around crucial aspects of existence. Starting with the essentials, things begin anew every day.
“Then maybe I’ll stop and look around at the scenery, with a freshly smoothed-out brain.” – Neil Peart
Passing today
White noise
All the way
Recycling the periodic rhythm, while in it for the long haul, seasons come and go with regularity.
“Feelings of anticipation bring back that childhood sense of Time; its incomprehensible linearity, how unreal there seems from here, in either direction.” – Neil Peart
On watch
Whole web
Unmistakable
Reviewing old 35mm color slides of images captured in my youth, the sense of place and time remain even if the exact location of the venue is forgotten. Only partial memories can be preserved.
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” – Le Corbusier
Stretching far
Morning freeze
Studying possibility
In a natural scene of aesthetic encouragement, experiencing the wilderness offers great gratification. There is an intensity and transactional exchange engendered with full external participation.
“You can twist perception, reality won’t budge.” – Neil Peart
Sheer space
Around the edge
Presence felt
An aggregated abstraction painted on the side on a small wooden structure, located in a previously visited venue of the distant past, resurfaces as a target of interest. Isolated entities, framed within a frame, formulate a system of object categorization.
“Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.” – Jean Piaget
Forest cooperation
Irregular intervals
Over a surface
Describing many entangled and reciprocal elements, a stand of trees on a hillside is sophisticated yet visually subtle. The spatial distribution of the interrelated ecological variables compliment the cool gray ambience.
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.” – Herman Hesse
Content form
Attract attention
Obvious persuasion
Embellishing a wooden stucture, afternoon light illuminates a basic form of commercial advertising. Messages shift meaning as time passes.
“Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.” – Seth Godin