Abstraction

Fissured fault-line
Fractured sign paint
Topographical map

Natural processes effect all matter.

“There is no true loss in authentic growth, only the natural process of letting go, outgrowing, pruning.” – Tracey Bond

Parse insights
Audacious in structure
Imagined conversations

This aging side of armor plating was found on a retired army transportation vehicle.

“There’s obdurate mystery in his powerful combinations of hermetic sensibility and formal clarity, which dumbfound even as they command attention.” – Peter Schjeldahl

Time span
Energy exposure
Affecting matter

What is left in an old abandoned and enclosed storefront window.

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” – Robert Frost

Self-renewing
Idea distancing
Objective referents

It takes time to learn how to appreciate a dynamic visual symphony.

“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.” – Lucien Freud

Pattern on pattern
Geometric relationships
Purposiveness

Experimenting with traditional graphic arts masking techniques is a way to expand visual potential.

“Art is purposiveness without purpose.” – Immanuel Kant

Rub marking
Oxidation patina
Heritage

A ventilating access door demonstrates the randomness of attrition.

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.” – William Blake

Inner impulses
Present perspective
Eventually revealed

Paint and shadows intercommunicate on the sidewalk.

“Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.” – Marcel Duchamp

Digging deeper
Reflective medley
Ripple reorganization

Sometimes things transpire organically.

“These landscapes of water and reflection are an obsession.” – Claude Monet

Inference form
Adequate abstraction
Chain of circumstances

The question of what constitutes natural process is indeterminate.

“The underlying problem is the fundamental distinction between formal logic and the real.” – Daniela Voss

Standards of rigor
Into an array
Exotic components

Always be open to magical events that randomly present themselves.

“Truth and falsehood depend on the relation of our ideas to reality.” – Francis Herbert Bradley