Surface Pools

Angled light
Residual profile
Ocean sands

Soft sand intermittently forms irregular seaside pools as the morning tide recedes.

“At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun.” – Sandy Gingras

Territorialization

Supple segmentation
Rupture of flight
Along the edges

Following wind and wave, pelicans are still flying over the shoreline. Being is dynamic.

“You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.” – Samuel Beckett

Organic Unity

Evanescence aware
Without interference
Natural raw material

Natural energy is a source of aesthetic nourishment, on a transitory walk through a waterlogged forest.

“For we wish not that nature coincide accidentally with the laws of our spirit, but that nature itself necessarily and originally not only express, but itself realize the laws of our spirit, and that it be nature and be called nature only to the extent that it does this.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Engagement Entanglement

Everyday life
Textual character
Underlying structures

Morning beach walking is good for the soul.

“The fact is that consciousness is by nature the locus of an illusion.” – Gilles Defeuze

Systematically

Ordered whole
Nature of things
Intuitive essence

Pelicans flying in formation give rise to thoughts about freedom and social collaboration.

“Words can do no more than draw our attention to the fact that we have concepts.” – Rudolf Steiner

Isaias Moves North

Internal compass
Spinning itself
Destructive power

At daybreak, standing in the receding tempest, the storm clouds compliment an angry ocean.

“To evacuate or not to evacuate, that is the question.” – Steven Magee

As it Exists

Posit totality
Primacy of reality
Affirmative essence

Even the walk to the beach before dawn offers interesting aesthetic potential.

“Pleasure masquerades beyond recognition in the Kantian disinterestedness.” – Theodor W. Adorno

Tidal Forces

Material forming
Globular cluster
Velocity structure

Every morning the beach geomorphology is reconfigured.

“The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.” – Terence McKenna

Inviting Positions

Relative surface
Sunny colonnades
Through openings

On every walk aesthetic opportunity prowls. Fulfillment is a function of awareness.

“Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.” – John Muir

Dynamic Control

Corrective requisite
Continuous variable
Extensive use

Wind and water unrelentingly conspire to incessant beach reconfiguration.

“A strict materialist believes that everything depends on the motion of matter.” – James Clerk Maxwell

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