Bird grasshopper
Schistocerca damnifica
Confined by environment
A rather large and prominent Outer Banks hopper is found alone in a bush on the edge of ocean lake.
“Grasshopper, seek first to know your own journeys beginning and end…But in this seeking, know patience.” – Master Po
Analyzed primitives
Independent meanings
Mere intuitability
Approaching another ocean dune stair climb, a range of possibilities await.
“Objective validity is strictly determined by our special spatiotemporally constrained mode of sensory intuition.” – Robert Hanna
Presumptive end
Derived from evidence
Affair complex
Adjacent to someone’s backyard property, nature progresses independently.
“But here, at this decisive point in the process of beginning, we must penetrate deeper with our meditations.” – Edmund Husserl
Continuous processes
Particle redistribution
Awareness change
Relentless ocean erosion reveals layers below recent wind-blown sand fill-in.
“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.” – Frank Herbert
Mental solvent
Spotting agent
Behind plastic
Familiar activities offered as services are subject to changing economies.
“As soon as the seeing begins, a play of changes in content and of acts of noticing that survey them severally also begins.” – Edmund Husserl
Noumenal power
Objective agency
Absolute force
In close proximity, organic and inorganic elements integrate matter and energy.
“There are numerous cases in which nature seems to hesitate between the two forms, and to ask herself if she shall make a society or an individual.” – Henri Bergson
Synthesis of realms
Propositional reflection
External confirmation
Increasing levels of rationality are discovered on the beach.
“Every conclusion, which ends with an assertion about the objectivities of nature, requires, if it is a rational one, premises that ultimately are founded in experience.” – Edmund Husserl
Cultural scene
Return engagement
Whole of things
Things of interest are distinguished by perception temporality.
“The consciousness of an image always rests upon a minimal awareness of its underlying materiality.” – Nicolas de Warren
Ephemeral elements
Random detail
Remaining after
On a recurring basis a light pole re-configures as message center.
“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Continually evolving
Specific entities
Ontological primacy
Sometimes reflecting surfaces operate at divergent focal points.
“But the thing holds itself aloof from us and remains self-sufficient.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty