Boundaries

Form extent
Uppermost layer
Surface narrative

Reflecting on the surface boundary, a morning walk passes by the water control drainage ditch.

“Light is common on the surface; rare in the depths.” – Marty Rubin

Impact resistance
Adaptive capacity
Root tree

Tenaciously attached on the bank of the York River, a tree demonstrates biological adaptability in a high-flux environment.

“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.” – Leon C. Megginson

Current conception
Possibility conditions
Speculation affinity

The last dance of a long standing relationship.

“This or that entity must absolutely be because it is the way it is.” – Quentin Meillassoux

Locus center
Linkage stage
Fuzzy Aggregate

As the morning progresses, territorial boundaries shift with the expanding light.

“There is a superposition of disparate rhythms, an articulation from within of an interrhythmicity, with no imposition of meter or cadence.” – Felix Guattari

Physical fulfillment
Aesthetic experience
Critical essence

Cottonwoods in the river valley cut sharply into the sky.

“The work wants its truth and untruth to be grasped.” – Theodor W. Adornot

Mostly transparent
Obscuring phenomena
Reflective enrapture

On another visit to the Historic Corolla Park to experience a sunset over the Currituck Sound, conditions initially seem aesthetically unfavorable. But as time goes by, visual potential is revealed.

“Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.” – Suzy Kassem

Things see
Parts of itself
Consequent duration

Landscapes defined within a perceptual frame of reference represent memory posited by immediate sense-awareness.

“Congruence is a particular example of the fundamental fact of recognition. In perception we recognize. ” – Alfred North Whitehead

Tower gaze
Wheeling round
Light unveils

While slowly walking and observing as the ambient light continuously varies, occasionally things all fall into place.

“For, when nearly sundown, he ascends the high tower, He lights the big lantern that gleams through the night; For the sea-faring sailors, roaming over the ocean, Who patiently watch for the red beacon light.” – Elmenia P. Lurvey

To the north
Shore illumination
Passing storm

The shore doesn’t care about anything, it just exists in an ever-changing display of natural forces.

“We can endure the storms only if we believe that the sun will soon come out of the clouds!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

Nearly stemless
Short rosette shrub
Spine-tipped

In some environments, the synergy between native vegetation and human habitation is acute.

“Adam’s needle is tolerant of poor, sandy soils, heat, drought, and salt spray.” – Peter Wyse Jackson