Causal Nexus

Primary character
Derived sequence
Immediate presentations

Certain points of interest along the way emerge and recede in the process flow.

“Thus organic bodies have their parts coordinated by a peculiar vividness in their mutual inheritance.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Richness and Vitality

Enigmatic landscape
Barrier backside
Coastal dune

The nuances of place emerge over an extended time exposure, as the experience of what is becomes apparent.

“There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.” – Josephine Hart

Ardea Herodias

Wading bird
Heron family
Open water shores

A wetland venue opens new visual possibilities, as a great blue heron is fully engaged in spearfishing.

“Creativity is the Blue Heron within us waiting to fly; through her imagination, all things become possible.” – Nadia Janice Brown

Compact Development

High density
Packed stack
Seasonal distribution

A beach vacation can be adversely affected by large crowds jockeying for position.

“The precise value of real estate is determined by many factors, and isolating the impact of one factor can be difficult.” – Harry H. Frampton

Emergence Dynamics

Time available
Resource organization
Inherently subjective

True crepuscular rays start when the sun is below the horizon during twilight hours. Dependent on vagaries of stratospheric cloud cover, such occurrences are a spiritually magical moment in the solar cycle.

“Each agent is itself a stochastic dynamical system, since it may sample, or be plagued by, the uncontrollable randomness in its substrates and in environmental stimuli.” – James P. Crutchfield

Multifarious Ideas

Explanatory strategy
Representational capacities
Experience derivative

Tonally reversed visual information helps to intensify understanding.

“We cannot generalize without some degree of abstraction.” – Thomas Reid

Yuletide Camellia

Bright red single blooms
Contrasting yellow stamen
Formed during the winter

This compactly growing shrub located in the sandy front yard has glossy dark green leaves and December flowers.

“Shrubs like the yuletide camellia are the real foundation of the landscape.” – Norman Winter

Something Known

Manifest itself
Sensuous presentation
Consciousness intervention

Moving though space and time can primarily be an aesthetic experience.

“Although the work is caught up in human time, it also belongs to the time of things in terms of that part of’ itself which is a thing in the world.” – Mikel Dufrenne

Absolute Presuppositions

Indispensable part
Analytic process
Introspective methods

Accomplishing aesthetic goals even before the sun comes up is an excellent start to any day.

“A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.” – Henry David Thoreau

Avalon

Out of nowhere
Background’s changing
Every moment

Stretching out into the Atlantic Ocean seven hundred feet, a visit to the Avalon Fishing Pier feels like a time-trip back to about 1958.

“Piers are good places for pondering the eternal enigmas of the universe.” – Howard Rodman

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