Windows of perception
Elements withstood
Fresh eye
An attempt to break free from the limitations of perception and sense the things anew.
“There is no natural light in the human brain which is born of the body alone, but by the body is confined to narrow boundaries… The more knowledge is darkened the more imagination shines” – William Blake
High fashion
Designer brand
Vintage mink coat
The voice of material consumption and luxury is illuminated by a more emotional and aesthetic value system.
“What labels me, negates me.” – Soren Kierkegaard
Multivoiced skyscraper
Of the streetscape
Architectural utterance
The windows offer glimpses into the building interior while silently broadcasting presence to the street below.
“The utterance lives by being answered, by being immediately included in the ongoing dialogue.” – Mikhail Bakhtin
Ocean waves
Churn of foam
Wet sand
Moving beyond the notion of a static world.
“There is no becoming which is not a becoming of something, and this something is the nexus, the actual entity.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Toy robot
Encased in
Transparent plastic
The mint robot can be understood as an actual entity existing within a complex of experiences.
“The actual world is a process of becoming, and… these becomings are not independent of one another. They require each other’s natures for the determination of their own natures.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Intimate confines
Placeholder for a body
Absent but implied
Consciousness shapes our experience of the world.
“To the phenomenological attitude, the world is not a collection of things, but a field of phenomena.” – Edmund Husserl
Inert depictions
Negative space
Experience elements
The specific qualities we perceive are all constituted by our consciousness.
“Negative space is magical – create it, don’t just fill it up!” – Timothy Samara
City matrix
Static substances
Dynamic processes
Here we approach organized complexity as an event in the process of becoming.
“The final realites of the world are not hard, irreducible, stubborn facts, but are events, happenings, occurrences. The entire character of actuality is to be described by these.” – Alfred North Whitehead
So as
To stand out
From the surface
Low-angle acute side-light allows shadows t0 play an integral role.
“I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It’s closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea.” – Mary Ellen Mark
Functional
Object
Transforms
Husserl, the father of phenomenology, emphasized the importance of bracketing out assumptions and returning to the essence of an object or experience through intentional consciousness.
“The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and adding his own contribution to the creative act.” – Marcel Duchamp