Place Connection
Flourishing unison
Living condition
Examined life
Nature is an extension of what we are.
“Without the gap between what is and what ought to be, philosophy ceases to exist.” – Peter Critchley
Index Assets
Certain area
Arranged datum
Demarcation
The dune stairs leading down to the beach cast intricate shadows.
“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.” – Euripides
Grand Mesa
Pristine nature
Volcanic basalt
Flat-topped mountain
Wildly divergent geography and landscape can be experienced by driving relatively short distances from Grand Junction.
“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.” – John Muir
Absolute Imagination
Object movement
Reference points
Systems of axes
Energy roams free over Ocean Lake in the pre-dawn darkness.
“I shall no longer grasp the movement from without, remaining where I am, but from where it is, from within, as it is in itself. I shall possess an absolute.” – Henri Bergson
Changeover
Night snow
Winter’s last gasp
Rapidly melting
A late spring snowstorm creates interesting juxtapositions.
“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.” – George R.R. Martin
Comeback
Seascape quality
Crucial role
Played by scenery
After several months away from the beach, it takes little time to get right back into the aesthetic flow.
“The objectivist or physical paradigm is the conventional view that the quality of the landscape is an intrinsic attribute of the physical landscape, just as landform, water bodies and hue are physical qualities.” – Andrew Lothian
Change in Direction
Wavefront interface
Different medium
Origination return
Electromagnetic wave reflection is observed at surface boundaries in bodies of water.
“The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.” – Gabrielle Bernstein
Serendipity
Reflective inquiry
Process meaning
Agreeable value
A snowy egret at the northern end of Ocean Lake stands out from a complex environment.
“There is compelled recognition of an object of experience which is infinitely other and more than what is asserted to be alone experienced.” – John Dewey
Perspective Variations
Relations with
Accidental feature
Not as being of it
Light and shadow relationships dramatically change the appearance of the rugged western slope.
“These are no truer than any other, but since this distance and this aspect are both typical, and evolved with the help of our body, which is an ever-present guide for this purpose, we can always recognize them, and so they themselves provide us with a standard for fixing and distinguishing between fleeting appearances.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Sand Waves
Random action
Consistence process
Segment extract
Representational qualities can be intense abstractions.
“Energy and motion made visible – memories arrested in space.” – Jackson Pollock