Diptych

Retention space
Standing reserve
Future consumption

During an extended expedition across the southland, a non-transitory, semi-permanent containment repository passes by. These bins hold previous harvests with the intention of retrieving them for future use. Heidegger argues that we now view nature only as raw material for technical operations.

“Strictly speaking I myself never observe the landscape. I experience its hourly changes, day and night, in the great comings and goings of the season.” – Martin Heidegger

Spiritual thoughts
Corporeal works
Productive force

Philosophy must understand the manifestation of ideas through particular things, with the history of art as a series of variously emphasized relations of the real to the ideal. Art is the positive objectification of the spirit of nature that is within human beings, analogous to nature’s own generation of phenomena, a crystalline, symmetrical totality.

“By what power is the soul created together with the body, at once and as if with one breath?” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Coefficient affinity
Situated in relation
Introduced extension

There exists a tension between the conceptual as manifest in art and the incipient foundation of unconscious elements. Within a dispersed finite existence, self-identity provides an indirect conduit to the ineffable.

“All means are sacred when they are dictated by inner necessity.” – Wassily Kandinsky