Abstraction

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

Contained in reasoning
Consequent conceiving
Predicated informatively

Reasoning is a form of cognitive organization.

“What is inside and what is outside reason and/or nature is therefore a local problem in the sense that it is consequent upon one thing being consequent upon another.” – Iain Hamilton Grant

Operating purpose
Invested significance
Projected upwards

The morphologic is a crucial concept that informs aesthetics.

“Philosophy apprehends and arranges what ‘is’ from the viewpoint of what ought to be.” – Peter Critchley

Object movement
Reference points
Systems of axes

Energy roams free over Ocean Lake in the pre-dawn darkness.

“I shall no longer grasp the movement from without, remaining where I am, but from where it is, from within, as it is in itself. I shall possess an absolute.” – Henri Bergson

Random action
Consistence process
Segment extract

Representational qualities can be intense abstractions.

“Energy and motion made visible – memories arrested in space.” – Jackson Pollock

Divert rays
Useful to sight
Anatomical description

Photography is the method for rightly directing one’s reason and searching for truth in existence.

“The mind, located in the brain, comes to receive impressions of external objects through the mediation of the nerves.” – René Descartes

Sharp attention
Action initiation
Temporal duration

Opportunities must be made to build upon ideas.

“There has to be permission to act, and the mind must lend its full support to being. We only feel this support, we only feel the mind’s presence, in the repose that precedes the action, when the possible and the real are clearly compared.” – Gaston Bachelard

Nocturnal time
Darkness reprieves
Morning tranquilize

An early morning color burst over the lake inspires creative operations.

“Unfortunately your work was not chosen for the exhibition, but it was a pleasure to view your work, your accomplishments as a photographer and your dedication to the on-going process of being an artist.” – Todd Johnson