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
Traditional masonry
Material mapping
Structural integrity
Finding sequence in experience, the excursion is full of mesmerizing narratives, stumbling upon cause and effect in the random happenings of elapsed time.
“Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.” – Eudora Welty
Primary direction
Reductive theory
Architectural work
Progressive styles and changes in form always become historic with the passage of time. Any opinionated movement towards a refined, improved, or otherwise desired state must reject antecedents.
“Art is higher than reality and has no direct relation to reality.” – Piet Mondrian
Agrarian stockpile facility
Towering grain elevator
Gravity distribution
Besides being aesthetically congenial, silos provide an efficient method of long-term crop storage and on-demand distribution. All grain prices are subject to fluctuation at any time.
“Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.” – Socrates