Abstraction

Once constituted
Geometrized projection
Possible perspectives

Composing randomness is satisfying.

“Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.” – Maurice James Gleick

Cognition activity
Abstract generality
Structured contrast

Small details from a larger ensemble join forces.

“In modern times, an individual finds the abstract form ready made.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Self-fulfilling
Textural discourse
Theory abundance

Sometimes one can get lost in the surfaces of things.

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.” – Albert Camus

Culturally speculative
Visual poetry
Art preserve

Layered meaning amalgamates as part of an organic process.

“Destined, to see the illuminated, not the light.” – Goethe

Colored glass
Metallic salts
Admit light

Aesthetic experiences involve progressive envelopes of control.

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton

Inner urge
Ripe necessities
Resonating outwards

The unveiling of spirit in material developments is often dense.

“The most important thing in the question of form is whether or not the form has grown out of the inner necessity.” – Wassily Kandinsky

Absolute character
Modes of givenness
Psychological experience

A deteriorating plastic film on a store front window offers an abstract reality extraction.

“For it is the characteristic feature of nature and everything that falls under this title that it transcends experience not only in the sense that it is not absolutely given, but also in the sense that, in principle, it cannot be absolutely given, because it is necessarily given through presentations, through profiles, and the profiling presentation, in principle, cannot be a reduplication of that which is itself presented.” – Edmund Husserl

Vision clear
Secret world
Different outlook

Looking much deeper with imagination to go by, a new image series coalesces.

“Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while working.” – Henri Matisse

Distinctions appear
Rigid segmentation
Form a system

Certain angles reveal reflective variances.

“It stretches from the rigid segments with their overcoding and resonance to the fine segmentations with their diffusion and interactions, and back again.” – Felix Guattari

Side body
Truck reflection
Blue paint can

Sometimes a dented fender is interesting aesthetic fodder.

“The relationships ‘figure’ and ‘background’, ‘thing’ and ‘nothing’, and the horizon of the past appear to be structures of consciousness irreducible to the qualities which appear in them.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty