Soft glowing light
Period of ambiguity
Gradual amplification
Twilight can transform an ordinary street into a richly colored dreamscape. Experience is more alive than usual under such enchanting conditions, quicker to respond emphatically to external stimulation.
“In day-time we investigate, but at night believe.” – Henry James Slack
Defined banks
Hydrological cycle
Flowing waterway
Rivers are not only economically important to the advancement of civilization, but are universally appealing as metaphorical landforms. In their ceaseless motion, they question both time and natural teleology.
“A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer is just a vessel that must follow where it goes.” – Garth Brooks
Synthesize insights
Chance opportunism
Combinatorial creativity
Circumscribing the immediate predicament during an excursion through the airport terminal, the available visual information is marshaled, correlated and reduced into specific inquires. In active imagination, intelligent conjectures respond by considering many possible hypotheses.
“Anyone with an alertness of mind will encounter during the course of an investigation numerous interesting side issues that might be pursued.” – W. I. B. Beveridge
Fathoming the depths
Local manifestation
Vital process
By being embodied in concrete forms, primordial knowledge, flowing from a single center, shapes the whole of cognition. Meanwhile, the pure universal must appear to the understanding as essence without form. Nevertheless, essence without form is also actuality with form.
“What the photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.” – Roland Barthes
Methods of explanation
Mechanical causality
Intelligent finality
The impulse and the desire to investigate the essence of things is deeply implanted in humans. The creative faculty, like intellectual intuition, can also be developed, enhanced, and its resources multiplied ad infinitum.
“Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.” – Anselm Kiefer
Object expression
Possibility intercept
Encounter assimilation
In an aesthetic frame of mind, there are logical similarities between psychological and physical descriptions. Approached from a receptive angle, unconventional hypotheticals become veracious.
“Prediction and explanation are exactly symmetrical. Explanations are, in effect, predictions about what has happened; predictions are explanations about what’s going to happen.” – John Rogers Searle