Optical aberrations
Unbridled possibilities
Employ abstraction
The Helios 44 lens has the ability to produce swirly bokeh in certain situations when the subject and background distances are just right.
“The combination of mechanical vignetting, astigmatism, and field curvature creates the swirl.” – Dusty-Lens
Representational
Blue-sky brown-wall
Abstraction
Although visual experience is based on observable phenomena, emotion and personal bias manifest influence.
“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit.” – Wilma Rudolph
Energy waves
Waiting position
Feeding station
Sometimes energy-field surface-areas become more apparent.
“The longer you stare at them, the wider the energy field expands until more colors begin to show themselves.” – Christina Westover
Vibrant current
Randomness pulsates
Incessant becoming
The intellect seeks to impose order, carving up sensation into discrete units for practical purposes.
“The element of chance…is precisely what allows for the appearance of the new.” – Henri Bergson
Fragmentary march
Assumptions connect
Transport details
A change agent encourages us to experience the world in a more immediate and direct way.
“Art can help us to understand ourselves better. By looking at art, we can come to see ourselves reflected in the work. We can see our own hopes, dreams, and fears embodied in the art.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Crown glass
Flint glass
Achromatic doublet
This early-spring image was captured with a classic single element lens, convex on one side and concave on the other. Invented in 1804 by William Hyde Wollaston as a lens for eyeglasses, he adapted it as a camera obscura lens in 1812. Later the design was used by Niépce and Daguerre in their early photographic cameras.
“I have captured the light and arrested its flight. The sun itself shall draw my pictures.” – Louis Daguerre
Luck Kee
Hair
We are open
We are constantly in flux, resonating with our own experience of always being in the world.
“The bright colors merged into one another, and the music rose and fell.” – Joan G Robinson
Damp texture
Coolness in the air
Muted scent of decay
Phenomenology encourages us to return to the world before interpretation.
“The body is not an object among objects, nor a substance endowed with properties, but a way of being in the world.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Motorized movement
Dangerous assignments
Transcend materiality
Phenomenology seeks to understand the essence of experience through a rigorous examination of how objects and events appear to us in consciousness.
“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.” – Lao Tzu
Space time intersect
Infinite dialogue
Utterances
A silent prompt that beckons the passerby to enter and participate in the grand conversation of humanity.
“We inhabit a world of signs…already saturated with the social and ideological voices of countless past others.” – Mikhail Bakhtin