Extensive Abstraction

Entrance cluster
Dimensions and volume
Area convergence

The dripping paint technique is becoming more prevalent, even at venues sanctioned by art authorities.

“Events are lived through, they extend around us. They are the medium within which our physical experience develops, or, rather, they are themselves the development of that experience.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Magnification Lake

Embrace existence
Physically perceived
Experiential connections

A diptych pair is here constructed of different focal length images of the same reality.

“There’s a lot to be said about the spiritual meddling of our reality.” – Jason Allen

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

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