Over the Sound
Thin haze
Gauzy dusk
Warm sunlight
Seagulls living in the present fly by the sunset.
“Hear the silent signals from outer space, dream by making and make by dreaming.” – Dejan Stojanovic
Escape from Transience
Immediate fact
Temporal extension
Observation exactitude
Immersed in the morning darkness, there are many variables to consider in balancing aesthetic energies.
“In memory the past is present.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Ambient Occlusion
Ground texture
Irregular surface
Wet mud pattern
Shading and rendering found on the edge of a saltwater marsh forms an artful abstraction.
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” – John Keats
In Position
Marked apprehension
Correct arrangement
Immediate duration
The sun sets on the Whaleshead gazebo pier, the perfect spot to experience present immediacy and anticipation.
“Thus the character of a moment and the ideal of exactness which it enshrines do not in any way weaken the position that the ultimate terminus of awareness is a duration with temporal thickness.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Character Cause
Time apart
Events related
Knowledge seeking
Shining up from the Buck Island neighborhood of Corolla, artificial lights illuminate morning clouds on the northern horizon, influencing the immediate proximity.
“Why should the cause which influences the mind to perception have any characteristics in common with the effluent apparent nature?” – Alfred North Whitehead
Species Concept
Attribute sorts
Fluid boundaries
Individual variants
Over the morning ocean cometh the pelicans.
“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” – Charles Darwin
Duration Assumes
Expressed order
Instinctive tendency
Solidify impressions
Over the morning episode of rambling and observing, aesthetic potential continually evolves.
“But it lives because the duration in which it develops is a duration whose moments permeate one another.” – Henri Bergson
Silent Hour
Waking eyes
Revealing sight
Dreams arise
The morning walks before dawn are solitary ventures into potentiality.
“The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Horizon Edge
Basic core
Living spirit
Adventure passion
There is always room for new ideas to spice up the image stream.
“The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Christopher McCandless
Motion Primacy
Trajectory traced
Domains and subdomains
Interactive dynamics
Each frame of reference is ultimately associated with a sentient being. Subjectively feeling, perceiving, and experiencing define sentience.
“If we describe a body moving through a space over a time, we are describing motion, but we are also assuming a more primary nonkinetic and immobile space-time within which this motion occurs.” – Thomas Nail