Abstraction

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

Concentrated attention
Analytical frame
Sensuous aspects

A train station map shelter provides transparent aesthetic orientation.

“No single quality constitutes a privileged theme which the others would serve only to translate.” – Mikel Dufrenne

Organizational past
Remaining quantity
Leftover pieces

Photography and exploratory walking are intimately intermeshed.

“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.” – Roman Payne

Cryptic hint
Enigmatic stresses
Equivocal symbol

Deliberate marks inscribed on an urban surface are somewhat mysterious.

“Why should things be easy to understand?” – Thomas Pynchon