On the beach
Grandview nature preserve
Lower Chesapeake bay
Sometimes organic structures wash-up out of the depths.
“Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” – Loren Eiseley
Possibilities enabler
Exploration adventure
Embodied engagement
Tools extend our range of perception, allowing us to see beyond the limits of our own eyes.
“The perceived world is not a collection of independent objects; it is a fabric woven from my own point of view, from my experience as a situated perceiver.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Powerful dynamism
Existence fluidity
Life force
The seagull is not an object in space; it is a process, an event.
“Life is not movement, but mobility; it is not a thing, but a tendency. It is not something that is made, but something that is being made.” ― Henri Bergson
Across bridge
Autumn forest
Experience texture
The bridge itself is a liminal space between two realms, the point at which the real and the aesthetic intersect.
“Art does not imitate reality; it expresses it.” ― Benedetto Croce
Winter day
Southeast view
Bay shimmer
Some magical places are within reach.
“The Chesapeake is a place where the sky and the water meet, and the land and the sea become one. It is a place of endless horizons and hidden coves, of whispering reeds and crashing waves.” – James Michener
Beyond the immediate
Texture of being
Utilitarian implement
The world is not something to be simply observed, but something to be inhabited, to be engaged with.
“The body is not simply a thing, but a way of being in the world.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Unassuming blossom
Soft morning light
Pregnant with the future
The ongoing process of becoming is a reminder that each moment is pregnant with the potential for something new, something beautiful, something uniquely itself.
“In the rhythmic rise and fall of concrescence, the actual world, with its stubborn detail, is always being born anew.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Patent medicine
Temperance drink
Hobble-skirt design
The familiar fluted bottle is so curvy it once was called the “Mae West” bottle.
“The perfect liquid wrapper.” – Raymond Loewy
Drying over the fireplace
Filled with gifts
In the morning
Saint Nicholas knew the family was very poor, so he threw three bags of gold coins down the chimney.
“Your stockings prove your virtues. Be certain they are clean and free of tears.” – Emilie Autumn
Unique separate
Dynamic processes
Life death
The leaf is not simply a thing, but rather a process of becoming.
“The individual entity is a process of becoming, not a being. It is a process of self-creation, in which it is constantly becoming something new.” – Alfred North Whitehead