Clear vision
Open vulnerability
Cognitive enhancement
Sometimes when proceeding in the zone of creativity, the artist feels more like an instrument rather than an agent. Regardless of how harmonious the whole might be fashioned, there is the underlying belief that things can yet be made even more euphonious.
“You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.” – Anna Deavere Smith
Inside the metropolis
Branches adjacent sky
Judiciously deployed
With a mixture of exhilaration and appreciation, a force of nature presents within the built environment as a harmonious self-arrangement of isolated facts into a whole. The power and glory of the tree is magnified in the urban landscape.
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.” – Hermann Hesse
Starting to glow
Close to sunset
Immediate conviction
Some aesthetic experience is marked by an almost total lack of verbal delineation accompanied with a profusion of visual mental eminence. Looking out the hotel window, ideas come and go in a multitude of vaguely connected meditations. Freed from any immediate necessity for activity, such isolated thoughts synthesize without intention.
“Passion is a bridge from possibility to probability.” – T.F. Hodge
Flooded sunlight
Geometrical filigree
In the city now
Aesthetic prospecting within an unfamiliar city bathed in resplendent sunlight is exhilarating. Developing a philosophy of reconnaissance is an important phase in becoming a more effective explorationist.
“There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.” – Norris, Kathleen
Sensation exercise
Compound function
Claims to reality
Although contentment is generally achieved when experience is choreographed by order, the presence of disorder offers encouragement in the pursuit for aesthetic gratification. In the vast cosmic framework of causal influence that affects every juncture, establishing an unaccustomed disposition exhilarates.
“In the work of art the relativity becomes the harmony of the composition, and the absoluteness is the claim for separate individuality advanced by component factors.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Freedom from
Resilience against
External powers
City row houses here feature formidable wrought iron gates. People that are in potential direct danger from local hostile forces seem to understand the value of protection. If we lock the doors to our houses to establish control of access, why should we not also control the borders of our country?
“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” – James Baldwin
Physical properties
Visual fragments
Complete rumination
By engaging multiple perspective encounters, working with energy and time in the spatial depths of the material city, urban architecture takes on new relationships to the aesthetic observer. Appearances are in constant flux, with certain moments and juxtapositions especially affecting.
“The steel and the space, or the object and the void, become one and the same.” – Richard Serra
Dignified propriety
Pleasingly graceful
Stylish appearance
An organic form is here accentuated by high intensity radiation reflecting off a manufactured architectural structure in the metropolis backdrop. Such an appearance brings to light questions concerning the nature of natural. In its most broad sense, to be natural must include all matter and all forces acting on matter. Thus along with energy, the appurtenances of the biological world, including humans and the convergences of their society, are all natural.
“But we call that clear knowledge which comes, not from our being convinced by reasons, but from our feeling and enjoying the thing itself, and it surpasses the other by far.” – Baruch Spinoza
New possibilities confront
Expansion appears as contraction
Spontaneously compensated
A durational event occurs at a temporal transition juncture in the heart of the city. Radiation patterns rapidly realign offering a fascinating pageantry of involvement.
“It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident anymore, not it’s inner life, not its relation to the world, not even its right to exist.” – Theodor W. Adorno
Exact position
Linear accelerator
Simulation session
The morning sun reflects off the city in a way that accentuates the angular geometry of the constructed framework. In an active engagement, the perception of objects is dependent on differential energy patterns.
“The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.” – Robert Greene