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
Highest quality
Instructively typical
Established value
Transparent surface forms respond to further investigation.
“Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.” – Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Individual feature
Distinct parts
Of a whole
Architectural details, found on a walk around town, momentarily capture interest.
“And the more magnification we use, the more details are brought out, perfectly formed, like endless sets of boxes within boxes.” – Roman Vishniac
Accumulator register
Once implemented
Everything necessary
A painted tree stump asks questions and provides answers.
“Adjacent possible describes things that can be made actual that are just within the realm of possibility close to actuality, and close to other things already actualized that are related or facilitate its actualization.” – Kent Palmer