Synthesis of realms
Propositional reflection
External confirmation
Increasing levels of rationality are discovered on the beach.
“Every conclusion, which ends with an assertion about the objectivities of nature, requires, if it is a rational one, premises that ultimately are founded in experience.” – Edmund Husserl
Cultural scene
Return engagement
Whole of things
Things of interest are distinguished by perception temporality.
“The consciousness of an image always rests upon a minimal awareness of its underlying materiality.” – Nicolas de Warren
Ephemeral elements
Random detail
Remaining after
On a recurring basis a light pole re-configures as message center.
“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Continually evolving
Specific entities
Ontological primacy
Sometimes reflecting surfaces operate at divergent focal points.
“But the thing holds itself aloof from us and remains self-sufficient.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Freely imagine
Unfettered parameters
Aesthetic contemplation
Capturing vibrations while having a brewski at Alewerks.
“It is endemic to being an artist that one operates in phantasy.” – Tavi Meraud
Crucial moment
Inferential paradigm
Primordial dimension
A very pleasant cold evening spend on an icy lake will never be decisively repeated.
“The world is a work of art, and its apparent rationality is an illusory facade masking nature’s ultimately irrational spontaneity.” – Richard Cobb-Stevens
Confined space
Regulative dimension
Adequate foundation
Fracturing the passing scene into vertical slices, opposing passages operate at right angles.
“To be conscious of something is not simply to be affected by the object in question. On the contrary, the object is only an object for us because of our own meaning-giving contribution.” – Dan Zahavi
Indigenous
Microbial process
Surface sheen
Certain anaerobic bacteria derive their energy by oxidizing dissolved ferrous iron, producing thin-film interference color patterns on still swamp water.
“The rainbow sheens found as a thin film on top of pooled water in swamps and marshes are the result of natural oils released by decaying vegetation or the biological processes of anaerobic bacteria reducing iron in soil.” – Jeff Ripple
Gregarious
Strictly coastal
Scrappy omnivore
At the limits of experience, things are most interesting.
“Sinuous, lithe, and undulating, in flight the grackle looks like it was handcrafted by Modigliani or Brancusi.” – John Nova Lomax
Lived experience
Intimate relation
Territory of time
In the swamp, fallen leaves pile-up and flatten-out under incessant water pressure.
“Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.” – Barbara Hurd