Wound up spirit
Precursory phenomena
Immutable essence
The sunrise experience is made consummate by a passing osprey.
“The artist dwells in the circumstances the present offers him, so as to turn the setting of his life (his links with the physical and conceptual world) into a lasting world.” – Nicolas Bourriaud
Tangible being
Distinct experiences
Subtend one another
The shadowself fits into a large open tent on the lawn.
“There is double and crossed situating of the visible in the tangible and of the tangible in the visible; the two maps are complete, and yet they do not merge into one.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Established by mind
Resemblance relation
Association effect
Traversing universal challenges, aesthetic experiences emerge while walking through the dark woods softly.
“The present perception dives into the depths of memory in search of the remembrance of the previous perception which resembles it: the sense of recognition would thus come from a bringing together, or a blending, of perception and memory.” – Henri Bergson
Ontologically subtle
Habitual antecedent
Witness to whenever
On certain days ambient conditions seem to stimulate more avian activity.
“Perception is never a mere contact of the mind with the object present; it is impregnated with memory-images which complete it as they interpret it.” – Henri Bergson
Blue lenses
Enhance contour
Calming effect
Blue lenses allow harmful short wavelength radiation into the eyes that can cause damage.
“This seeks to be composedly heavy but merely succeeds in attaining a considerable degree of ponderosity.” – Roy Carr
Still functions
Passing mariners
Environmental integration
Most subjects aesthetically benefit from extensive views from many different angles.
“Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other.” – Virginia Woolf
Nascent acts
Homogeneous changes
Qualitative heterogeneity
A seagull soars above the oceanic sunrise, as perceptional actuality depends on engagement.
“We have said that the material world is made up of objects, or, if you prefer it, of images, of which all the parts act and react upon each other by movements.” – Henri Bergson
Present moment
Indivisible limit
Pure conception
The aesthetic present consists in a collective organization of motion and sensation.
“The psychical state, then, that I call ‘my present,’ must be both a perception of the immediate past and a determination of the immediate future.” – Henri Bergson
Wade forage
Attentive fishing
Coastal waterway
A shorebird posses without any intention to impress.
“The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming; thus it is with time.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
Regular events
Process change
Place of causality
The boathouse at Whalehead glows and reflects abstractly in the evening sunlight.
“A single object or fact on its own isn’t regarded as something important by science.” – Ufuk Özen