Vitality ratio
Intended function
Performance competency
Pelicans often cooperate in their airborne travels. During flight, as they follow the winds either to the north or south along the shore, group wing unfolding generates a vortex saving significant amounts of energy expended.
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” – Leonardo da Vinci
Cluster rhythm
Randomness coincidence
Points of contact
Each experience differs in its specific way. Shifting from the universal to the particular by concentrating on the near and small instead of the distant horizon, consciousness is informative.
“There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe.” – Frank Herbert
Various parts
Aspects linked
Coordinated
Awake and lightly treading along the path, spiritualism always follows physicality. Bundles of energy constantly sustain the life force.
“But is it possible to conceive the nervous system as living apart from the organism which nourishes it, from the atmosphere in which the organism breathes, from the earth which that atmosphere envelopes, from the sun round which the earth revolves?” – Henri Bergson
Barrier beach
Perpendicular
Offshore current
Traveling ocean water level energy fluctuations encounter a sandy beach. An accumulated sandbar can produce a sort of shore basin, concentrating the receding flow through a breech.
“Rip currents are caused by the shape of the shoreline itself, and they may be sudden and unexpected.” – Tom Harris
Short term
Parking stall
Set aside
Direct imaginative engagement with strategies of extraction and reassembly push aesthetic boundaries. A brief object encounter can trigger surreal narrative passages, transporting meaning into unlikely abstractions transcending quotidian affairs.
“The whole world is your palate, but only if you reach, take hold of what you need and pocket it.” – Kurt Schwitters
Smell of rain
World glimpses
Time overlaps itself
Pulling away the cover of routine, simple delights unfold everyday under all kinds of conditions. Appreciate each ephemeral opportunity.
“Ferns were striving towards the light, spiraled stems uncoiling into fronds.” – Kate Morton
Animals do
What they do
With intention
Sometimes pelicans in formation zip along near the water surface and sometimes they fly much higher.
“As one comes to better understand animals in their natural habitats, it may become apparent that everything they do has a purpose.” – Bob Thomas
Non printed circuit board
Components accessible
Protected wiring
Certain environmental conditions cause accelerated aging. Periodic rehabilitation maintenance is required.
“The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.” – Nikola Tesla
Widely scattered
Storm coverage
Affect area
Slowly moving off-shore and over open ocean, rain rains.
“Rain I don’t mind, shine the weather’s fine. I can show you that when it starts to rain, everything is the same, when the rain comes down.” – John Lennon
Multiplicities spreading
Subjectification proceeding
Reterritorialization
Incongruous beach detritus questions the relationship of natural habitat and manufactured artifact. Each encounter provides information about the cultural time in play.
“We think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.” – Alan Watts