Architecture

Narrowly focused
Light source
Indication

The sunlight lines-up and animates the otherwise ordinary.

“Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Conveying things
Leaning over the
Portals of consciousness

The late afternoon sunlight highlights an architectural detail in the city. To us, things are what they are as they are perceived, not as they are in themselves.

“Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.” – Henri Bergson

All in my eyes
Spark in the eve
Sustain itself

Colored lights and reflections adorn an intimate urban edifice.

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” – Bob Dylan

Field of regard
Prospective viability
Visual aspect

A concern with small, perhaps trivial details is sometimes the direct result of observational proximity. Of course, it might also be possible that an inability to focus on important details of a situation comes from a fixation on the big picture.

“The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.” – Chris Pine

Elaborately adorned
Renaissance design
Illustrious past

Rumored to be haunted by several ghosts, the Bentley Hotel features a magnificent lobby. For some unknown reason, the current management promulgates rules that limit photography. Specifically, they stipulate that dedicated cameras cannot be used, while cell phones cameras can. I suppose they think cell phones can only produce lousy, unusable images.

“Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.” – Robert Smithson

Prime spot
Over the top
Easy access

Unity involves the connexity of things, an interdependence and interrelationship between and among particular individuals elucidated into some coherence of understanding. The choice of emphasis is how the infinite manages its concentration of attention.

“There is no reason to hold that confusion is less fundamental than is order.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Intrinsic notion
Merely objective
Reciprocal concurrence

Sensibilities heighten in the pre-evening when walking around an unfamiliar city for the first time. Under such enchanting circumstances, aesthetic intuition itself becomes absorbed in the objective experience.

“The highest consummation of natural science would be the complete spiritualizing of all natural laws into laws of intuition and thought.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Rigorous description
Periodic generalization
Matter of expediency

Aesthetics can access a discriminating domain of experience that penetrates the camouflage of rationality.

“Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.” – John Dewey

Essential dimensions
Conditions of existence
Anatomic unity

As we know it, actuality is always slipping away. In an uncertain framework, aesthetics weaves transient circumstances into meaningful narratives.

“The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it.” – Albert Camus

Ineluctable fact
Nominal reduction
Extracted from life

Agricultural structures here exhibit geometrical abstraction in a minimalistic vein. The overall vibe is reminiscent of a cross between Piet Mondrian and Agnes Martin.

“To succeed in constructing something which is not a copy of the ‘natural’ and yet possesses some substantive quality implies a most sublime talent.” – José Ortega y Gasset