Time extemporizes
Makeshift contrivance
Pressing need
Parallel temporal domains aggregate.
“Our projection of our psychic states into space in order to form a discrete multiplicity is likely to influence these states themselves and to give them in reflective consciousness a new form, which immediate perception did not attribute to them.” – Henri Bergson
Radical distinctiveness
Intention directed
Working floats
There is a certain haphazard randomness associated with an operational fishing village.
“These immanent connections produce apperceptions of nature and concordant systems of nature and, therein, secure nature as truly existing in itself.” – Edmund Husserl
Successive states
Intervening movement
Positional awareness
Contemplation of the ordinary can result in new interpretations.
“Install yourself within change, and you will grasp at once both change itself and the successive states in which it might at any instant be immobilized.” – Henri Bergson
Represent states
Serve to distinguish
Becoming in general
Energy matter space and time in continuous movement.
“In order that action may always be enlightened, intelligence must always be present in it; but intelligence, in order thus to accompany the progress of activity and ensure its direction, must begin by adopting its rhythm.” – Henri Bergson
Successive images
Waxing and waning
Stable view
From a distance, the given presentation consolidates into geometric order.
“Our perception manages to solidify into discontinuous images the fluid continuity of the real.” – Henri Bergson
Persist as such
Distinguish qualities
Color succeeds to color
Going to a restaurant is as much an aesthetic opportunity as a culinary experience.
“The primal function of perception is precisely to grasp a series of elementary changes under the form of a quality or of a simple state, by a work of condensation.” – Henri Bergson
Concentrate attention
Never determining
Actual position
An unsettled ocean carries that water of delight.
“But if the thing exists, then it is what it is, even if the experience, which would experience it, did not exist, and even if the thoughtful thinking did not exist, which would determine it in an objectively valid way.” – Edmund Husserl
Must express
Contrast function
Of what is
Looking and seeing continue evolving as a necessary function of existence.
“All that is necessary is to represent the contrast of what is, not only with what has been, but also with all that might have been.” – Henri Bergson
Atmospheric droplets
Refraction dispersion
Arch of color
Sometimes it pays to turn around and look in the opposite direction.
“Suppress all interest, all feeling, and there is nothing left but the reality that flows, together with the knowledge ever renewed that it impresses on us of its present state.” – Henri Bergson
Come to me
Cruise control
Rubbed my eyes
Photography is a continuous process of exploration which fuels a love affair with life.
“The thing is given in experiences, and yet, it is not given; that is to say, the experience of it is givenness through presentations, through appearings.” – Edmund Husserl