Bar Stools
Freely imagine
Unfettered parameters
Aesthetic contemplation
Capturing vibrations while having a brewski at Alewerks.
“It is endemic to being an artist that one operates in phantasy.” – Tavi Meraud
Explored Possibilities
Crucial moment
Inferential paradigm
Primordial dimension
A very pleasant cold evening spend on an icy lake will never be decisively repeated.
“The world is a work of art, and its apparent rationality is an illusory facade masking nature’s ultimately irrational spontaneity.” – Richard Cobb-Stevens
underPass
Confined space
Regulative dimension
Adequate foundation
Fracturing the passing scene into vertical slices, opposing passages operate at right angles.
“To be conscious of something is not simply to be affected by the object in question. On the contrary, the object is only an object for us because of our own meaning-giving contribution.” – Dan Zahavi
Organic Oil
Indigenous
Microbial process
Surface sheen
Certain anaerobic bacteria derive their energy by oxidizing dissolved ferrous iron, producing thin-film interference color patterns on still swamp water.
“The rainbow sheens found as a thin film on top of pooled water in swamps and marshes are the result of natural oils released by decaying vegetation or the biological processes of anaerobic bacteria reducing iron in soil.” – Jeff Ripple
boatTailed Grackle
Gregarious
Strictly coastal
Scrappy omnivore
At the limits of experience, things are most interesting.
“Sinuous, lithe, and undulating, in flight the grackle looks like it was handcrafted by Modigliani or Brancusi.” – John Nova Lomax
Passing Moment
Lived experience
Intimate relation
Territory of time
In the swamp, fallen leaves pile-up and flatten-out under incessant water pressure.
“Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.” – Barbara Hurd
Displaced Value
Physical concept
Correspondence
Objective reality
Full scale idea elaboration is discoverable in plastic forms.
“All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another.” – Diane Setterfield
excluSive
Distraction free
Radical deviation
Workout environment
A tinted display window and a T-shirt collaborate.
“Phenomenology deliberately restricts itself to describing carefully and without prejudice whatever is given to experience in the manner in which it is so given.” – Dermot Moran
Objectivistic Interpretation
Ontological status
Conceptual perspective
Articulates itself
Time manifests in all natural and organic circumstances.
“Knowledge presupposes that the world affects us and our instruments, that there is an interaction between the knower and the known, and that this interaction creates a difference between past and future.” – Ilya Prigogine
Interaction Management
Organizational values
Guiding principles
Purpose direction
Backstage surface tonalities line-up in coherent patterns.
“Appearance without reality would be impossible, for what then could appear? And reality without appearance would be nothing, for there is nothing outside appearances.” – Francis Herbert Bradley