Coastal walking
Darkened stairways
Down to the waterline
Dune stairs endure the full force of formidable ocean dynamics.
“Nature is an index for an all-inclusive normativity, encompassing all streams of consciousness that stand in an experiential relation to one another through empathy.” – Edmund Husserl
Cranial protection
Brand insignia
Transparency
We have a tendency to romanticize conceptions of history.
“It must be remembered that ordinary thought wavers confusedly between events and objects.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Bind together
Sympathy intuition
Space barrier
For its substance, art interrogates existence in general.
“Intelligence remains the luminous nucleus around which instinct, even enlarged and purified into intuition, forms only a vague nebulosity.” – Henri Bergson
Whole sympathetic
Certain particular
In the unity
Digging deeper there is always more to experience.
“We trail behind us, unawares, the whole of our past; but our memory pours into the present only the odd recollection or two that in some way complete our present situation.” – Henri Bergson
Foliage circles
Reflective patches
Egress portal
Symmetricality found on the doorstep seeks dissimilarity.
“The constancy of the theme is manifest, however, and the variations only fit it to the diversity of the circumstances.” – Henri Bergson
Given elements
Mechanism expresses
Recomposing whole
Objects naturally develop their own amiable sort of relationships.
“While intelligence treats everything mechanically, instinct proceeds, so to speak, organically.” – Henri Bergson
Ocean medley
Winter feeding
Northern gannets
On the Outer Banks the winter comes alive in desolation.
“The more science advances, the more it sees the number grow of heterogeneous elements which are placed together, outside each other, to make up a living being.” – Henri Bergson
Matter aspect
Elaboration process
Forms modified
A small Quonset Hut original used in an oil business on a river confluence is here converted into a seafood restaurant.
“We conceive ourselves as perceiving attributes of things, and bits of matter are the things whose attributes we perceive.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Outcome of relations
Different bits of matter
Distinct volumes of space
Slowly the swamp reveals its essence.
“Recognize that experience has its indubitable right and that, on the basis of experience, undoubtedly valuable findings of endless abundance are attainable.” – Edmund Husserl
Rare remnants
Ship wreck
Change circumstances
A fossil from the steampunk era.
“There is something which in itself is one, and which is more than the logical aggregate of entities occupying points within the volume which the unit occupies.” – Alfred North Whitehead