Well structured
Highly organized
Carefully controlled
In the city, an architectural container in which plants are grown decorates the sidewalk.
“Like it or not, we humans are bound up with our fellows, and with the other plants and animals all over the world. Our lives are intertwined.” – Carl Sagan
Stark reminder
Uncompromising
Psychic structures
After receiving a Covid vaccine, I wandered around Grand Junction looking for interesting light patterns.
“With such currents in the existential sea to swim through, a day spent in motion helped keep me afloat, forcing me to be moderately curious about my surroundings, and to concentrate on what I was doing.” – Neal Peart
Moving relations
Perceptually open
Continuous transition
Succeeding in compelling attention, various aspects of experience stimulate thought, establishing events that momentarily dominate the stream of consciousness. Conscious contents and unconscious contexts interweave to create an aesthetic response.
“Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.” – William James
Organized sensation
Effectively within
The environment
Featuring reflected window light spots amide a geometrical presentation, an extra ordinary street configuration stimulates.
“Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.” – Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Moment integrity
Solidify feelings
Fully present
Focusing on the concrete and specific can to lead to useful abstract generalizations, appealing in the comforting desire for an underlaying possibility of universal truth.
“ If we look around and pay attention there is plenty that we can find to be grateful for. Noticing the richness that we have in our lives is nourishing and will help us to feel stronger and more able to cope.” – Karen Armstrong
Space boundaries
Naturally flowing
Harmonic balance
Life is organic in structural physicality, while simultaneously featuring logical organizational elements as patterned spatial attributes. By way of discontinuities in intensity values, angles and edges define object boundary identification.
“Two galaxies on one longitude: converge penetrate interweave consolidate.” – Anastasia Savinova
Exact indications
Resolvable physically
Ontological notions
Sensation is a successive process of consuming information in response to external stimuli by conveying impulses to the sensory nervous system. Knowledge is organizing stimulus input into identifiable patterns based on retention, while wisdom is implementation of such subjective construction correlations into practical application.
“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.” – Thomas Henry Huxley
In close proximity
Narrow cramped space
Surroundings relation
Individual autonomy is compromised in a dense environment of overwhelming social forces packed into a constricted existence field. The physical concentration of the city results in an underlying sense of freedom lost.
“I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.” – Lauren Groff
Intuitive clarity
Significant discourse
Syntactical regimentation
The received discourse of contemporaneity and allurement is a normative narrative. As spontaneous stages within a broader durational process, human affects influence instantaneous experience. The city responds moment by moment in a multitude of design configurations.
“We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Existence immediacy
Establishing regularities
Power of abstraction
Aesthetic cognition goes beyond just consciousness, percolating in a mental underworld of more complete functionality. Opening up possibilities, receiving messages from this cerebral realm breaks creativity free from reason.
“What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now.” – Hans-Georg Gadamer