May 2022 – latentsifier

Platform Shelter

Inert matter
Weighted geometry
Reality descends

A designated area to wait for a train offers some weather protection.

“It is easy to show that there can be a direction only for a subject who takes it, and a constituting mind is eminently able to trace out all directions in space, but has at any moment no direction, and consequently no space, without an actual starting-point, an absolute ‘here’ which can gradually confer a significance on all spatial determinations.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Something from Nothing

Form of thought
Determines the shape
Facts perceived

Aesthetic opportunities are about attitude and recognition of potentialities.

“When I posit the facts with the shape they have for me to-day, I suppose my faculties of perception and intellection such as they are in me to-day; for it is they that portion the real into lots, they that cut the facts out in the whole of reality.” – Henri Bergson

Peering Over

Staying power
Cultural elements
Mutate along the way

Creative alterations respond and resonate with contemporary circumstances.

“The outrageousness of the graffiti was not so much what it said, but where it turned up.” – Charles Panati

In Space

Time spread out
Modeling corporeity
Naturally inclines

In the direction which material things develop, experience pushes facts while climbing a hill in early spring.

“And as there is indeed no intuition that carries us into the non-temporal, all intuition is thus found to be sensuous, by definition.” – Henri Bergson

Tidewater Drifter

Spatial limits
Implicatory structure
Possible significance

Taking it is easy on the streets.

“The gaze gets more or less from things according to the way in which it questions them, ranges over or dwells on them.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Two Rivers

Resolvable elements
Drawn consequences
Mutually dependent

A tributary runs through low-level marsh land on its way to the sea.

“Experience pure and simple shows us the interdependence of the mental and the physical, the necessity of a certain cerebral substratum for the psychical state—nothing more.” – Henri Bergson

Placard Posts

Notification especially
Allow preparations
To be made

Random messaging accumulates between doorways.

“But we need to express the plurality of the views, that are unlike each other, by the multiplicity of the points of view that are exterior to each other.” – Henri Bergson

Ocean Atmospherics

Hydrologic cycle
Pressure humidity
Precipitation wind velocity

Complex interactions between differing amounts of heat create a domain of constant motion.

“We do know that the main energy source for changing weather patterns and climate is solar energy from the Sun. “ – Stephen A. Nelson

Cover

Efficient duration
Embrace at once
In a moment

Walking around a small town, going wherever the light leads.

“There’s something good waitin’ down this road, I’m pickin’ up whatever’s mine.” – Tom Petty

Peony Flower

Top heavy
Involucre bracts
Herbaceous perennial

Successful cultivation in a sunny micro-climate.

“If we consider the changing object at a certain essential moment, at its apogee, we may say that there it just touches its intelligible form.” – Henri Bergson