Sensory experience
Physical response
Entry point
Sunset at the edge of the Currituck Banks Maritime Forest, where the grasslands dominate, offers ample aesthetic opportunity.
“In nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird – all is there for itself.” – Berthold Auerbach
Primary features
Essential nature
Aesthetics inclination
Seeing possibilities in the details, the native vegetation demands attention.
“It’s to do with abolishing ways of existing or, as Nietzsche put it, inventing new possibilities of life. Existing not as a subject but as a work of art – and this last phase presents thought as artistry.” – Gilles Deleuze
Eloquent radiance
Brightness splendor
Dazzled by a vision
The protective dunes accommodate their own distinctive beauty.
“But to apprehend one element of such a whole constitutes and presupposes a long step towards apprehending the rest.” – Bernard Bosanouet
To the north
Shore illumination
Passing storm
The shore doesn’t care about anything, it just exists in an ever-changing display of natural forces.
“We can endure the storms only if we believe that the sun will soon come out of the clouds!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
Over ocean lake
Graceful motion
Impressive journey
Vigilance pays off when stalking the stalker.
“A great blue heron is the color of gray mist reflecting in blue water.” – Delia Owens
Rising high
Sloping sand
Large undulations
The dynamic ocean is simply present, calming in it’s agitation as vastness offers perspective.
“Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.” – Hermann Broch
Out of sight
Middle ground
Fine balancing
Predicable problems ensue when too many big houses are built on small adjacent lots.
“At all times let a person be supple as the reed and not rigid as the cedar.” – Rabbi Nathan
Incidental elements
Attendant oxidation
Concomitant structure
Shifting subjects helps to keep the aesthetic fibers limber.
“Excluding parts of the whole story will make the viewer think for themselves.” – Carl Johan Johansson
Sun rise
Motion blur
Mystical place
The world opens up as a function of the imagination.
“Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives.” – Anthon St. Maarten
Ancient moment
Buttressed majesty
Needles coppery red
Sharing the water with its shadow, this cypress tree is relatively old and well adapted to its prevailing circumstances.
“On the Outer Banks, bald cypresses flourish in our shallow sound side waters and maritime swamp forests.” – Lexi Holian