Out of Water
Displaced fish
Gills desiccate
Function improperly
Beach object residue sometimes makes a cultural statement.
“When you’re a fish out of water you look for the nearest ocean.” – Anthony T. Hincks
Upstream
Time whirl
Vertical thrust
Slants of light
Some venues are surprisingly rich in aesthetic potential, offering tremendous diversity in visual expression.
“The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time.” – Annie Dillard
Red Fox
Out and about
Elongated body
Short limbs
An unusual morning sighting on top of the beach dune, an elusive fox vixen appears fearless.
“The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
Arise by Virtue
Material object
Conscious being
Existence engagement
Through reason and reflection, the shadowself materializes in different times and places promoting inner and outer occurrence consideration.
“Consciousness always accompanies thinking, and ‘tis that, that makes every one to be, what he calls self.” – John Locke
Silver Sea
Elegant lifestyle
Inclusive cruising
Explore destinations
Very good to both observe and flyover, the ocean shimmers gray.
“The sea was our main entertainment. When company came, we set them before it on rugs, with thermoses and sandwiches and colored umbrellas, as if the water – blue, green, gray, navy or silver as it might be – were enough to watch.” – Sylvia Plath
Natural Contours
Perfect adaptation
Niche authenticity
Place knowledge
The sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix is more meaningful when natural.
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.” – Henry David Thoreau
Deep Woods
Spatial matrix
Successive segments
Extensive continuum
Over time the forest reaches equilibrium.
“The continuum only exists in the spatio-temporal gaps between actual occasions, but it is what unifies the occasions in one common world.” – Luciana Parisi
Duration Dialectic
Nature art
Science equally
Vision Refinement
Each in their own way, pelicans celebrate by flying together over the dune.
“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.” – Frank Herbert
Leagues Under
Last one to doubt
These circumstances
Meaning ambiguous
Sometimes cryptic messages are found on the back of conventional road signs.
“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.” – Jules Verne
Appropriate Attitude
Virtual state
Come into view
Passes into actual
The natural environment and internal interaction foster emotional outcomes. When engaged with a specific environmental venue, repeated visits engender nuance.
“We do not perceive things in ourselves, but at the place where they are. We only grasp the past at the place where it is in itself, and not in ourselves, in our present.” – Gilles Deleuze