Abstraction

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

Successive states
Intervening movement
Positional awareness

Contemplation of the ordinary can result in new interpretations.

“Install yourself within change, and you will grasp at once both change itself and the successive states in which it might at any instant be immobilized.” – Henri Bergson

Bare entity
Abstraction necessary
Method of thought

Spatial and color relationships grace a study of simple complexity.

“Thus space is not a relation between substances, but between attributes.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Interconnected
With one another
Empathizing positing

Certain objects offer interesting alternatives for interpretation.

“Each particular experience and similarly each connected, eventually closed sequence of experiences gives the experienced object in an essentially incomplete appearing, which is one-sided, many-sided, yet not all-sided, in accordance with everything that the thing “is.”” – Edmund Husserl

Flat plane
Coarse grain
Iron steel

The best way to extract aesthetic potential is to reduce expectations.

“All I can say about the work I try to do is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.” – Helen Levitt