Boundaries

Serving to establish
A standard
Water vapor

The higher the humidity, the wetter it feels.

“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

Broken blind
Seemingly mundane
Window treatment

We do not inherently perceive the material world itself, but rather, our minds interpret sensory data to construct a world of experience.

“And in short, there is nothing which I cannot conceive as existing independent of my own mind, in some part of infinite space, without any relation to me.” – George Berkeley

Curious scene
Role of objects
Authentic reflection

The staircase only exists in relation to the display case, and the display case only has meaning in relation to the staircase.

“The objects encountered in the course of experience have volatilized to the point where they can be grasped only by the allegorical method.” – Walter Benjamin

Intentional beings
Capable of having
Subjective experiences

The starfish, with its radial symmetry and lack of a centralized nervous system, may not perceive the world in the same way that we do.

“The other is not another closed ego-monad, but an alter ego constituted in my own ego.” – Edmund Husserl

Sensory details
Pluralistic field
Stylistic progression

Spectral echoes of a life shared begin to reassert themselves.

“Art is the ultimate expression of human creativity and imagination, allowing us to explore and question the world in profound and meaningful ways.” – Arthur C Danto

Crook of reality
Paradox cradled
Symmetrical distribution

A pair of twins hold up a dream of shared memories.

“Being-together as the being-with one another of Daseins, not of persons – and not even a ‘with’ one another in the sense of an addition of isolated beings.” – Martin Heidegger

Meaning dances
Liminal space
Form and flow

Within the stillness of the golden head, a storm of becoming rages.

“The head is not the brain.” – Gilles Deleuze

Spaces we inhabit
Points of transition
Masking tape

As Gaston Bachelard writes in The Poetics of Space, “Every door is the guardian of a passage.”

“The Photograph … forces the eye to question, to analyze, to establish relations, to create stories.” – Roland Barthes

Portal into
Lived experience
Purpose and belonging

The cup, precariously suspended, becomes a symbol of our own precarious existence, of the delicate balance we maintain between order and chaos, routine and the unexpected.

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” – Alfred Adler

Bougie
Goat
Boutique

A combination of visual elements contributes to image satisfaction.

“Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.” – Benjamin Whichcote