On watch
Whole web
Unmistakable
Reviewing old 35mm color slides of images captured in my youth, the sense of place and time remain even if the exact location of the venue is forgotten. Only partial memories can be preserved.
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” – Le Corbusier
Stretching far
Morning freeze
Studying possibility
In a natural scene of aesthetic encouragement, experiencing the wilderness offers great gratification. There is an intensity and transactional exchange engendered with full external participation.
“You can twist perception, reality won’t budge.” – Neil Peart
Sheer space
Around the edge
Presence felt
An aggregated abstraction painted on the side on a small wooden structure, located in a previously visited venue of the distant past, resurfaces as a target of interest. Isolated entities, framed within a frame, formulate a system of object categorization.
“Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.” – Jean Piaget
Forest cooperation
Irregular intervals
Over a surface
Describing many entangled and reciprocal elements, a stand of trees on a hillside is sophisticated yet visually subtle. The spatial distribution of the interrelated ecological variables compliment the cool gray ambience.
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.” – Herman Hesse
Content form
Attract attention
Obvious persuasion
Embellishing a wooden stucture, afternoon light illuminates a basic form of commercial advertising. Messages shift meaning as time passes.
“Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.” – Seth Godin
Certain amount
Cool conviction
Clinging connection
Dead tree outlines juxtaposed against vibrant fall foliage stimulate visual pleasure. It is fortunate that many external physical manifestations provide intense feelings of elegance.
“Treat every natural beauty you met as if you see them for the first and last time!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
Object motif
Earlier epoch
Formulating ideology
Exercising control over nature and land use developed among humans long ago as a subsistence strategy. Functional agrarian structures support an economy based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland.
“So we thought that our photos would give the viewer the chance to go back to a time that is gone forever.” – Bernd Becher
Silently feeling
Scenery exercise
Sublime encounter
A few fine days of traveling is often full of poignant memories.
“The twisty road was worth the trip alone.” – Neil Peart
Awesome scale
Restless adventure
Straight to the heart
Governed by some animated non-physical principles, vitalism in this magical region is rich and enchanting. With intimate experiences exclusively derived from place and time, in a moment of such reverence the universe of natural energy collaborates.
“There is no work of art that does not indicate an opening for life, a path between the cracks.” – Gilles Deleuze
Over the edge
Violent terrain
Cool summit
Located in an eminent position for an interesting existence juxtaposed against great environmental adversity, life makes the best of what is available.
“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” – Jack London