Something Coming
Long run
On track
About this place
Refining an aesthetic experience takes time and dedication.
“You belong somewhere you feel free.” – Tom Petty
Junct’n Square
Deep dish pizza
Beer & wine
Carry out
The cast shadows from the hanging light fixtures add a nice graphical touch.
“Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.” – Anna Quindlen
Ought to Be
Operating purpose
Invested significance
Projected upwards
The morphologic is a crucial concept that informs aesthetics.
“Philosophy apprehends and arranges what ‘is’ from the viewpoint of what ought to be.” – Peter Critchley
Glimmering Vast
Eternal note
Murmuring responses
Free as waves
The ocean never grows tired. Stare it down and nourish what comes near you.
“Heading out this morning into the sun, Riding on the diamond waves, little darlin’ one.” – Ann Wilson
Organic Materials
Natural latex
Crab fragment
Beach action
One task of metaphysics is to carve reality into categories, while an associated task of aesthetics is to arrange reality into interesting objects.
“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.” – Lucian Freud
Place Connection
Flourishing unison
Living condition
Examined life
Nature is an extension of what we are.
“Without the gap between what is and what ought to be, philosophy ceases to exist.” – Peter Critchley
Index Assets
Certain area
Arranged datum
Demarcation
The dune stairs leading down to the beach cast intricate shadows.
“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.” – Euripides
Grand Mesa
Pristine nature
Volcanic basalt
Flat-topped mountain
Wildly divergent geography and landscape can be experienced by driving relatively short distances from Grand Junction.
“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.” – John Muir
Absolute Imagination
Object movement
Reference points
Systems of axes
Energy roams free over Ocean Lake in the pre-dawn darkness.
“I shall no longer grasp the movement from without, remaining where I am, but from where it is, from within, as it is in itself. I shall possess an absolute.” – Henri Bergson
Changeover
Night snow
Winter’s last gasp
Rapidly melting
A late spring snowstorm creates interesting juxtapositions.
“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.” – George R.R. Martin