Institutional Food
Eat for fun
Scheduled break
Sanctioned sustenance
Convenience sometimes trumps tasteful victuals.
“I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.” – Anthony Bourdain
Posted
Culturally speculative
Visual poetry
Art preserve
Layered meaning amalgamates as part of an organic process.
“Destined, to see the illuminated, not the light.” – Goethe
Tombstone Rest Stop
Stillness holds
Under-lying dead
Roots wrapt about
A bench and road-sign stand in the midst of confederate soldiers last remains.
“The living come with grassy tread, To read the gravestones on the hill; The graveyard draws the living still, But never anymore the dead.” – Robert Frost
Sidewalk Scene
Loose screw
Sign in the street
Directional indicator
Mainstream conformity helps keep the masses in check.
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Signifier Subjectivity
Something substantial
Through the hole
In the ceiling
Exercising the capacity for abstract thought in the art gallery enhances the potential for creating an abstract extraction.
“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.” – Rumi
Still as New
Catch the mist
Time has come
Ramble on
Some landscapes seem otherworldly.
“Mine’s a tale that can’t be told, my freedom I hold dear; How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air.” – Robert Plant
Illuminated Twist
Colored glass
Metallic salts
Admit light
Aesthetic experiences involve progressive envelopes of control.
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton
Appointed Time
Inner urge
Ripe necessities
Resonating outwards
The unveiling of spirit in material developments is often dense.
“The most important thing in the question of form is whether or not the form has grown out of the inner necessity.” – Wassily Kandinsky
Keep in Check
Condition society
Constrain behavior
Controlling governance
The power of the ruling class is continuously enforced.
“The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material.” – Anthony Fauci
Disengaging the Empirical
Absolute character
Modes of givenness
Psychological experience
A deteriorating plastic film on a store front window offers an abstract reality extraction.
“For it is the characteristic feature of nature and everything that falls under this title that it transcends experience not only in the sense that it is not absolutely given, but also in the sense that, in principle, it cannot be absolutely given, because it is necessarily given through presentations, through profiles, and the profiling presentation, in principle, cannot be a reduplication of that which is itself presented.” – Edmund Husserl