Gradual decline
Breakdown apoptosis
Surface indication
Natural processes affect all physical materials throughout variations of apparent perspective.
“To analyse time is not to follow out the consequences of a pre-established conception of subjectivity, it is to gain access, through time, to its concrete structure.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Really indicate
Familiar spatial
Temporal entities
Sunlight filtering through trees illuminates a porch corner in the early morning.
“The various elements of time and space are formed by the repeated applications of the method of extensive abstraction.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Percipient object
Awareness unity
Classification event
Reflective surfaces can interact in dynamic relationships.
“Owing to the temporal duration of the immediate present the self-knowledge of the percipient object is a knowledge of the unity of the consciousness within other parts of the immediate present.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Periodic process
Statically complete
Hermeneutic renewal
A complex system presents itself in a port city with both speculative and metaphysical overtones.
“Intersecting events are necessarily joined; but the notion of junction is wider than that of intersection, for it is possible for two separated events to be joined.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Present moment
Perceptual field
Surface contact
Approaching various physical contingencies is always first an opportunity for aesthetic experience.
“The object is made determinate as an identifiable being only through a whole open series of possible experiences, and exists only for a subject who carries out this identification.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Direct expression
Essential relation
Mediation event
Graffiti competes with commercial advertising on available urban surfaces.
“The continuity of nature is to be found in events, the atomic properties of nature reside in objects.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Old time
Sour mash
Jager bomb
Working with space compression in a differential reflective and transmissive environment opens possibilities.
“Intentionality is this continually renewed project of consciousness by which consciousness achieves an accord with the object before all reflection.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Observed continuity
Material persistence
Existence duration
Color and texture distinguish themselves in the city.
“Accordingly it is admitted that the ultimate fact for observational knowledge is perception through a duration; namely, that the content of a specious present, and not that of a durationless instant, is an ultimate datum for science.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Synthesis rhythm
Plastic element
Movement gathered
An aesthetic object appears within a fully coordinated energy field.
“The living being is the material from which the aesthetic object is made and the organ of performance through which the aesthetic object appears.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Intuitive connections
Experience transcendence
Immanence everywhere
When transparency transitions to translucency in a study of surfaces the mind reels.
“Upon more careful consideration, we find that the stock of phenomenological motivations is infinitely richer than the few and somewhat vague titles of perception, retention, recollection, and expectation may suggest.” – Edmund Husserl