Atmosphere attractive
Gradual revival
Brings an audience
Some heavy rain was soon over and again came the warm spring morning. Feeling comfortable lingering over restored historic integrity on a wet day.
“Old Town is really starting to renew itself.” – Ray Willis
Divine proportion
Element distribution
Arrangement allotment
Looking out from within, organization is imposed on sense awareness as an immediate subject of experience.
“Form itself, even if completely abstract … has its own inner sound.” – Wassily Kandinsky
Lavish retreat
Ornate details
Original glory
Beyond its imposing size and elongated shape, the true design triumphs are found in the many architectural details: curved roof lines and gables, copper shingles, ornamental chimneys, distinctive porches, and vivid yellow paint.
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Desirable age
Previous era
Vintage unique
Stark urban sunshine illuminates vertical structural siding, emphasizing a rather imposing facade. The window security bars add an uninviting element of apprehension. I elected to forgo an evaluation of the collection of proffered castoff objects.
“Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Segmented paradigm
Tradition innovation
Schematizing function
Another stage of narrative imagination becomes a formative influence dominating appearances. Emphasizing architectural elements through color differentiation, the old town storefront facade takes on new life.
“Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.” – Jack Gardner
Parts arranged
Specific manner
Operational whole
Harmony lurking in the alley reminds us that the existence of simples is questionable. Must complexity rest on something that is not complex?
“Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.” – Leon Battista Alberti
Red shoe barn
Wilken music
Stone laser imaging
Historic downtown offers a plethora of well-maintained vintage buildings containing shops and restaurants rich in vigor and entrepreneurial spirit.
“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” – Pearl Buck
Varied expression
Narrative inflections
Unity of effect
On an urban walkabout, aesthetic material seems to spring fully mature from the forms and energy of the constructed environment. Artwork is built from the stuff of experience, as new ideas are extracted from the timeworn.
“To the creative mind the creative activity does not appear so much as a process, a sequence of happenings, a growth culminating in a fruition, as a mere occurrence, a sudden appearance in the form of an illumination, or inspiration.” – Max Schoen
Particular subsumed
Confirmation harmony
Permeated with thought
Spread across the retina, an environmental color-field emphases an overall consistency of form containing an intricate textural presence. Such a geometrical juxtaposition of different hues and structures intimates the purely abstract.
“Out of clutter, find simplicity.” – Albert Einstein
Artful expedient
Horizontal platforms
At each story
Being someplace susceptible is more palatable when an escape route is know to be available. A dangerous transformation incident is either designated as an event in retrospect or anticipated as a future potential.
“In some instances, dissociation induces people to imagine that they have some kind of mastery over intractable environmental difficulties.” – Marlene Steinberg