Seascape quality
Crucial role
Played by scenery
After several months away from the beach, it takes little time to get right back into the aesthetic flow.
“The objectivist or physical paradigm is the conventional view that the quality of the landscape is an intrinsic attribute of the physical landscape, just as landform, water bodies and hue are physical qualities.” – Andrew Lothian
Wavefront interface
Different medium
Origination return
Electromagnetic wave reflection is observed at surface boundaries in bodies of water.
“The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.” – Gabrielle Bernstein
Reflective inquiry
Process meaning
Agreeable value
A snowy egret at the northern end of Ocean Lake stands out from a complex environment.
“There is compelled recognition of an object of experience which is infinitely other and more than what is asserted to be alone experienced.” – John Dewey
Relations with
Accidental feature
Not as being of it
Light and shadow relationships dramatically change the appearance of the rugged western slope.
“These are no truer than any other, but since this distance and this aspect are both typical, and evolved with the help of our body, which is an ever-present guide for this purpose, we can always recognize them, and so they themselves provide us with a standard for fixing and distinguishing between fleeting appearances.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Random action
Consistence process
Segment extract
Representational qualities can be intense abstractions.
“Energy and motion made visible – memories arrested in space.” – Jackson Pollock
Exclusive option
No other choice
Extinguish possibility
A near infinite number of potential paths await the traveler.
“It is by choice and not by chances that we change our circumstances.” – Nadia Sahari
Produced entirely
On its own motion
Quite spontaneously
Diffraction produced by a pinhole lens contributes to the sum of conditions.
“Space may be a product developed from non-spatial elements; and, if so, its production may have great bearing on the question of its true reality.” – Francis Herbert Bradley
Divert rays
Useful to sight
Anatomical description
Photography is the method for rightly directing one’s reason and searching for truth in existence.
“The mind, located in the brain, comes to receive impressions of external objects through the mediation of the nerves.” – René Descartes
Fortuitous interplay
Combination arrangement
Novelty resulting
A vast number of variables are always in play, contributing to experiential opportunities with multiple potential avenues of inquiry.
“There is in this mechanical process no inherent reason why the thoughts that arise should be relevant or fitting to the actual situation that evokes them.” – David Bohm
Chimera
Evil spirit
Deterrent
Serving the common good by controlling building entry, demons are put on notice.
“If you can’t do something smart, do something right.” – Shepherd Book