Abstraction

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

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