Facts thrown up
By which it comes
Into existence
It is useful to try considering perception in light of the act of perception.
“Perception does not present itself in the first place as an event in the world to which the category of causality, for example, can be applied, but as a re-creation or re-constitution of the world at every moment.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Time spread out
Modeling corporeity
Naturally inclines
In the direction which material things develop, experience pushes facts while climbing a hill in early spring.
“And as there is indeed no intuition that carries us into the non-temporal, all intuition is thus found to be sensuous, by definition.” – Henri Bergson
New dimension
Constancy hypothesis
Phenomenal field
The immediate indeterminate can become determinate under more comprehensive awareness.
“The tacit thesis of perception is that at every instant experience can be co-ordinated with that of the previous instant and that of the following, and my perspective with that of other consciousnesses.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Appearings appear
Developing aspect
Normal processes
The mindscape sometimes drifts into dreams.
“According to its essence, nature is knowable only through the path of experience.” — Edmund Husserl
Natural symptom
Invented signal
Articulation function
Selecting and exploiting a sheer sensory experience profoundly expresses the emotion of being in a specific place.
“We may, of course, look for any kind of expression we like, and there is even a fair chance that, whatever it be, we shall find it.” – Susanne K. Langer
Critical stance
Experience unfettered
Conception tension
A random nondescript corner of exchange greets the morning.
“More fundamental than consciousness is the ‘circumspection’ (Umsicht) with which Dasein moves amidst its objects and grasps them in action.” – Martin Heidegger
Thin opaque
Winter’s day
Cloud cover
A sense of place is dependent on durational experience.
“There is no mysterious essence we can call a ‘place’. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber of memory.” – J. A. Baker
Throw light
Journey effort
Essential features
The path leads forward into a receding uncertainty.
“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.” – Gilda Radner
Down the road
Car slows down
Pass her by
A study in horizontal verticals, the walk to Carp Pond is full of geometric equiliBrium.
“I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall.” – Victoria Aveyard
Material terms
Cognitive status
Awareness decision
Some venues elicit repeated investigations.
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” – Rachel Carson