Abstraction

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

Growing collection
Substantiated facts
Nuggets of truth

Individual and independent objects combine in a linear deterministic approach to holistic interpretations.

“The scientific method only acknowledges monophasic consciousness.” – Tara W. Lumpkin

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