Familiar routine
Scoops you up
Takes you along
Another cross-town automotive trip offers a few transient photo opportunities. Among many aesthetic intentions, the ‘High Way’ image series is a study of given contingencies and how to interpret them into something meaningful.
“When you get a groove going, time flies.” – Donald Fagen
Concordant tangle
Thematic oppositions
Configurative unity
On transitional boundaries awareness intensifies, as associated emotions are more strongly experienced.
“Solitude has the peculiar and original power not of isolating us but of projecting our whole existence out into the vast nearness of the presence of all things.” – Martin Heidegger
Unconditional absolute
Infinitely emergent
Things internally
Art seeks the essence of experience indirectly through the unity of subject and object. In beauty, maximum freedom conceives and comprehends itself within operational necessity.
“Art is an absolute synthesis or mutual interpenetration of freedom and necessity.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Possible action
Voluntary decision
Causal connectedness
From among many various alternatives, several suggested routes of travel are promulgated. Leading to divergent outcomes, an existential attitude emphasizes such freedom of choice, as well as the obligation of having to choose, or not.
“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.” – Umberto Eco
Synthetic unity
Objective ground
Encountered objects
Traveling down the highway of life, spontaneity combines a freedom from external determination with the freedom to self-legislate. Signs along the way provide clues dependent upon the receptivity of sensation.
“Even to speak of space and time in this way requires the unconscious, unaware, darkly caused synthesis of imagination.” – Bernard Freydberg