Critical observation
Translation form
Spatialization
A very old and monumental tree has room to spread out.
“The self-movement of the work is, rather, genuinely part of its being, and this movement is manifested in its rhythm.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Implicit affirmations
Objective world
Entails subjectivity
Potentials have the positive property of launching new perceptive threads.
“The real then becomes what this subjectivity makes real.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Antecedent map
History destiny
Stand uneasy
Trash pick-up seems to be behind time.
“Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.” – Wayne Gerard Trotman
Reflecting planes
Interior transmission
Street walker complexities
Occasionally I find a circumstance where energy, matter, space, and time concentrate.
“The rapid accumulation of knowledge has spawned a sense of urgency to master information quickly, perhaps at the expense of building foundational understanding needed for future learning.” – Susan Dunn
Organizational past
Remaining quantity
Leftover pieces
Photography and exploratory walking are intimately intermeshed.
“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.” – Roman Payne
Own realities
Fortuitous futures
Alternate continuity
A new chrome sculpture in Newport News pivots around several fulcrums.
“I want to keep different options for different futures open all the time.” – Caroline Polachek
Infinite regions
Bounded by
Two half-axes
Found messages are often modified by long-term exposure to the elements.
“The absence of a message sometimes is a presence of one.” – Hasse Jerner
Force attracts
Toward mass
Acid rain
Paint erosion streaks are caused by falling condensed atmospheric moisture.
“Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.” – Carl Sagan
Sonata movement
Indefinable resemblance
Unity atmosphere
An atmospheric ambiance shimmers and changes while nourishing a continuous process which maintains its essence.
“It has an atmosphere that diffuses itself, not because it is ungraspable, but because it has the positive power of extending itself beyond the particular objects of which it is the quality and of drawing other objects to it in order to disclose itself through them.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Through a presence
Sensuous original
Creative act
Aesthetic perception does not stop at mere identification.
“As soon as we cease to oppose the aesthetic object’s form to what is represented in this object and realize how aesthetic perception grasps what is represented within form itself, then such a form, which embraces what is represented, becomes the genuine Gestalt and the signifying unity of the object.” – Mikel Dufrenne