Abstraction

Elevated views
Fields of incentive
Covered with gray

Entangled extraction on a wild walk through town.

“You go to the edge, and you always give in. On your first flash of freedom.” – Tom Petty

Mind power
Framing ideas
Abstract notions

Sand blown onto the beach boardwalk fills up the cracks and crevices while bright sunlight stripes add ambiguity. I walked over this for months before recognizing it’s aesthetic potential. Makes me think about what else I might be missing.

“By generalizing abstraction, we mentally separate one idea from its particular determinations, as when we think of a color but no particular color.” – Samuel C. Rickless

Different world
Contact knowledge
Wonderful wonderment

Abstraction builds formidable understanding.

“We adore chaos because we love to produce order.” – M.C. Escher

Theoretical elaboration
Indeterminate reference
Ambiguous delineation

Wandering through the strip-mall at dusk, abstract objects reflect off opposed surfaces.

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett

Ground texture
Irregular surface
Wet mud pattern

Shading and rendering found on the edge of a saltwater marsh forms an artful abstraction.

“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” – John Keats

Pretextual paradigm
Dialectic contexts
Objective value

With repeated exposure comes deeper appreciation. Knowledge is a matter of refined expectations.

“Many narratives concerning a self-sufficient totality may be revealed. ” – Martin Hubbard

Repeated form
Rhythm regularity
Natural distribution

Ocean wave flow patterns standout in relief with the morning angled sunshine.

“Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns.” – Fritjof Capra

Domain entities
Sand infrastructure
Variegated dispersion

Organizing information is an important aesthetic activity. Pure abstraction offers windows in the walls of the organization.

“Individuals are allowed to inhabit the experiences of others through their interactions with art.” – Meridith Reed

Assessing haziness
Insulated glass unit
Window seal failure

Synthesizing evidence from objects, art can be made from entirely improbable sources.

“The multi-pane glass develops condensation or fogginess that can’t be wiped off from either side of the window. The cause is a failure in the edge seal that secures the individual panes of glass.” Lee Wallender

Overall assessment
Phantom elegance
Kindred spirit

On the edge of the forest, the cosmic and the abstract are illuminated by observable radiation. The space between ideas stretches across a relevant and revealing threshold.

“Chaos is the law of nature; order is the dream of man.” – Henry Adams