Ephemeral life
Abstractly enduring
Anticipates spirit
In an artistic life, aesthetic moments flash by at the speed of light.
“If all art is the secularization of transcendence, it participates in the dialectic of enlightenment.” – Theodor W. Adorno
Compact ovoid mass
Formed within layers
Sedimentary strata
Concretions have long been regarded as geological curiosities.
“They typically form by post-depositional mineralization around some nucleus (a rock fragment or fossil fragment).” – James St. John
Strikingly confirmed
Qualitatively integrated
Pull itself free
Full of intrigue, the drainage ditch creates its own unique ecosystem.
“All that seemed so far away and long ago, part of another life.” – Neil Peart
Indian paintbrush
High desert flower
Brash scarlet red
Bright signs of life in a sun-baked landscape attract attention.
“The wild daisies and Indian paintbrush whizzing past are just the genitals of a different life form.” – Chuck Palahniuk
Clarified form
Imaginable doubt
Excluded meditations
Moving toward the sea, foreground houses give way to the sky.
“After all, we have our continuous experience in which this world incessantly stands before our eyes, as existing without question.” – Edmund Husserl
Conjure up
Stand out
Pier peers
Shadow siblings visit the Avalon Fishing Pier.
“Brother and sister, together as friends, ready to face whatever life sends.” – Suzie Huitt
Original vitality
Actual autonomy
Ultimate evidence
Further defining the Helios lens optical potential, here red berries are in dual vortex optical windows within a swirling bokeh.
“On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels.” – Charles Dickens
Common side
Blotched lizard
Sunbathing
It was a relatively cool day, which made this particular lizard slow to bolt from his sunny perch.
“He viewed us, as we passed him by, with calm and yet with questioning eye, but moveless still, as though the stone were portion of his being’s own.” – Edward Robeson Taylor
Physical fulfillment
Aesthetic experience
Critical essence
Cottonwoods in the river valley cut sharply into the sky.
“The work wants its truth and untruth to be grasped.” – Theodor W. Adornot
Differential erosion
Drainage network
Ancient setting
A rugged arid land, shaped by eons of natural forces, feels timeless in its majesty.
“I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit.” – Rebecca Solnit