Intricate latticework
Simple elegance
Possibility of transcendence
The parish window, with its tangible presence, invites us to engage on a sensory level.
“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Silent witness
Profound ordinariness
Ebb and flow of life
The corridor is a liminal space, a place of transition. It is a place where we are neither here nor there. It is a place where we are suspended between the past and the future.
“The world is not what it is, but what it appears to be.” – José Ortega y Gasset
Single frame
Humble doorway
Portal to engagement
A riot of stickers, each a tiny tapestry of brushstrokes, on the canvas of a life lived.
“The image is a world in itself, a universe of meaning.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Small town
Urban organic
Window display
An outward appearance is maintained to conceal a less pleasant or creditable reality.
“The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
Marked by periods
Varied fortune
Discreditable incidents
Rectangles of different colors, shades, and materials found upstairs in a tavern.
“You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed.“ – Garrison Keillor
Original first-order
Fresnel lens
To cast light
The lighthouse is just south of Nags Head, a few miles before Oregon Inlet.
“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” – Anne Lamott
Conveying abstraction
Express forcefully
Inner spirit
In the realm of art, value occurs as the result of subtle vibration attunement.
“Thus, every cultural period creates art of its own, which can never be repeated again.” – Wassily Kandinsky
Point to something
Prohibition on entering
Referent withdraw
The traces themselves are on the verge of becoming meaningless.
“The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.” – Charles Sanders Peirce
Limestone skin
Dramatic enclosed
Two-story atrium
The Chrysler Museum exists to enrich and transform lives through experiences.
“The new atrium, Huber Court, would quickly become the Chrysler’s grand community living room, hosting countless Museum functions and other events.” – Ashley Grove Mars
Solid void
Rather fluid
Interconnected
Imagery frames a portion of the world, bringing it into focus while simultaneously excluding everything else.
“The margins of the text are not simply the edges. They are also the places where the text fails to contain itself.” – Jacques Derrida