Moving change
Everywhere present
Winding through landscapes
Coursing its way through space and time, as a matter of abstract practicality, a river and a life share some existential features. Peaks and valleys manifest along the way on a journey to eventual oceanic disappearance.
“Learn from a river; obstacles may force it to change its course, but never its destination.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
Something in common
Existing independently
Aesthetic approaches
Isolating particulars as visual components of a conceptual response, ideas endure continuous change. Natural processes drive the diversity and unity of life.
“What about someone who believes in beautiful things, but doesn’t believe in the beautiful itself…? Don’t you think he is living in a dream rather than a wakened state?” – Plato
Turning late
Amber sunlight
Autumn thoughts
Before winter’s gray silence, bright flames climax across the terrestrial expanse. In each season, the artist uses what the world offers.
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” – John Donne
Uniform
Homogeneous
Indistinguishable
The cubicle influence extends the suburban outskirts of most municipalities through consistent homogeneity. Future developments are a reaction to the present as a contemporary adjudication.
“Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements!” – Peter Gibbons
Grey context
Color aggregation
Substance environment
An overcast day in the late fall of 1976 aesthetically translates. By scanning subtle color saturation captured on slide film, an explicit collaboration with a much younger version of myself transpires.
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” – Franz Kafka
Spiritual force
Successive moment
Territorial assemblage
Spiritual places possess the power to inspire and impress the mind and heart. The memories of specific experiences intensify with the passage of time.
“One ventures from home on the thread of a tune.” – Gilles Deleuze
Emotional value
Demonstrative gesture
Matter occupies time
Apprehending time on the coast, the sea boundary aesthetically conspires as the relations between different aspects of material existence organized into a shifting texture of visual delight.
“This closure of nature does not carry with it any metaphysical doctrine of the disjunction of nature and mind.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Here now
Then there
Forward destiny
Attempting to sort out elements involved in the appreciation of time, objects in motion momentarily organize into aesthetic coherence. The world appears different driven by the development of conceptual understanding.
“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.” – Roy T. Bennett
Vapor dominated
Close proximity
Buoyant heat
Indicating that molten rock lies just beneath the surface, Yellowstone’s dynamic hydrothermal activity is most impressive in the winter.
“Yellowstone’s thermal areas are the surface expression of the deeper magmatic system, and they are always changing, They heat up, they cool down, and they can move around.” – R. Greg Vaughan
One way street
Downtown vibes
Close up perspective
Welcome the rain that cleans the village streets by dancing with the lights glowing in the drizzle.
“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.” – James Dickey