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
Developing Appreciation
Deeper impulse
Flow through
No agenda
Until I decided to create a new image series featuring shore birds, I never paid much attention to pelicans.
“Whatever you appreciate in your reality will keep “appreciating” (growing) in your reality because whatever you give attention/focus to gets attracted into your experience.” – Sen
Any Reason
No stopping
No fireworks
No bonfires
Life is full of capricious regulations. Arbitrarily invented rules often withdraw, only to be replaced by another new set of rules.
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” – Robert A. Heinlein
Sublime Presence
Kindred impression
Open to influence
Integrity impression
There is always a close relationship between internal constitution and natural exterior appearance. The fortuitous jumble of compounding components require mental organization.
“The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aggregate Sensation
Extensity nature
Intervals filled-up
Immediate localization
Deepening the perceptual understanding of awareness, autonomous cognitive processes attempt to make sense of acquired information by simplifying complex descriptions. Transforming disparate information into pure representations, variations on a theme make an image series worthwhile.
“For all that education can do is to associate with the actual affective sensation the idea of a certain potential perception of sight and touch, so that a definite affection may evoke the image of a visual or tactile impression, equally definite.” – Henri Bergson
Food Lion
Longstanding heritage
Convenient location
Grocery experience
Things become geometrically abstract on a trip for victuals.
“I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping.” – Joni Mitchell
Wreck Flyover
Ship remains
Portside glimpse
Vessel destiny
Pelicans in formation cruise over the sandy shore, surveying and adapting to prevailing conditions. The danger on the shoals is surely past.
“You see yourself as a shipwreck, but we see your treasure glowing inside, beneath the oceans in your eyes.” – Curtis Tyrone Jones
Osprey Feather
Dive deeply
Into the pools
Of creativity
Many interesting objects, both natural and synthetic, periodically adorn the beach.
“There were no reasons so mighty that they could override the desire to be in accord with the tides and the passage of seasons and the rhythms underlying everything around me.” – Jeff VanderMeer