Architecture

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

Benefit of doubt
Somehow consistent
With knowledge

And then there’s the way the light hits the building, casting shadows and creating depth.

“The whole of science is based on this principle: that nature can be chopped up into little pieces as long as the chopping is done in a way that preserves all the information content.” – Richard Feynman

Windows of perception
Elements withstood
Fresh eye

An attempt to break free from the limitations of perception and sense the things anew.

“There is no natural light in the human brain which is born of the body alone, but by the body is confined to narrow boundaries… The more knowledge is darkened the more imagination shines” – William Blake