High density
Packed stack
Seasonal distribution
A beach vacation can be adversely affected by large crowds jockeying for position.
“The precise value of real estate is determined by many factors, and isolating the impact of one factor can be difficult.” – Harry H. Frampton
Spatial relation
Concept formation
General attributes
Isolation of architectural details promotes abstraction. These components exchange cultural information germane to place and time.
“The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.” – Wassily Kandinsky
Regular events
Process change
Place of causality
The boathouse at Whalehead glows and reflects abstractly in the evening sunlight.
“A single object or fact on its own isn’t regarded as something important by science.” – Ufuk Özen
Occasion arises
Objective correlatives
Variant relations
Finding interesting visual associations on an evening walk through Buck Island is satisfying.
“Thus since the seer is caught up in what he sees, it is still himself he sees: there is a fundamental narcissism of all vision.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Elasticity insight
Vibrational shift
Spiritual awareness
Energy impinging with structural geometry and attentive observation suddenly all collaborate most felicitously.
“Our choices determine what we experience.” – Jennifer Wardowski
Cheap construction
Extra ornamentation
Project an image
I went to the Super Wings boutique to buy some cheap expendable sunglasses. Not sure why there are two such stores right across from each other, each filled with the same sort of junk.
“We had better not enjoy the moment, but create the moment.” – Ai Weiwei
Longstanding heritage
Convenient location
Grocery experience
Things become geometrically abstract on a trip for victuals.
“I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping.” – Joni Mitchell
Straight lines
Way back along
Imaginary path
Fresh paint and afternoon light bring geometric relationships into visual harmony.
“Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.” – Thomas Carlyle
On watch
Whole web
Unmistakable
Reviewing old 35mm color slides of images captured in my youth, the sense of place and time remain even if the exact location of the venue is forgotten. Only partial memories can be preserved.
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” – Le Corbusier
Arrangement conception
Saturated imagination
Individual varieties
After a passing storm, selective illumination sometimes creates a narrative bringing to life both subject content and the manner of its presentation.
“Art is a second creator of nature; it has, as it were, added another world to the former one, given it a perfection that the other in itself does not possess; and becoming united with nature, it each day creates new miracles.” – Baltasar Gracian