Yellow pipe
Chain-link fence
Seemingly unremarkable
It is a testament to the power of the aesthetic to transform our perception of the world and to invite us to see the world anew.
“Photography is about finding the poetry in the ordinary.” – Nicco Valenzuela
Positive forms
Negative spaces
Independent entities
When presences in the world are only hinted at we are left with absences.
“The shadow is not the object, but its double, its other. It is what the object is not, but what it might be.” – Alphonso Lingis
Supposed audience
Heavily influenced
Individual preference
Operative light and shadow play high above the lobby floor.
“The real problem at the base of all philosophy is the problem of how the actual world discloses itself to us.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Experience action
Physical property
Objects depicted
In the courtyard, I appreciate skylight window shadows overlapping an interior wall.
“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about its beauty, I just think about how to solve the problem, but when I finish it, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it’s wrong.” – Richard Buckminster Fuller
Something lurking
Sense of tension
Disrupts the order
Life is unpredictable and there are always things that are beyond control.
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Søren Kierkegaard
Bright yellow color
Pierces through
Shadow mesh
Structures and institutions are created to control and order our lives.
“It is not enough to be industrious; one should also be something.” – Henry David Thoreau
Describe explicitly
Approach apophatically
Transcendence escape
Small but magical arrangements of objects interacting with light mark the arrow of time.
“To have a system, this is what is fatal for the mind; not to have one, this too is fatal. Whence the necessity to observe, while abandoning, the two requirements at once.” – Friedrich Schlegel
Reference elevation
Gravitational surface
Managing tools
Light and shadow changes visual depth clues.
“Elevation at times requires separation.” – Carlos Wallace
Light delineates
Lines of force
Elemental alliance
By its own duration, a modification of an entrance tends to become an index of spacetime.
“The things can solicit the flesh without leaving their places because they are transcendencies, rays of the world, each promoting a singular style of being across time and space.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Open close
Movable joint
Swing mechanism
Organizing complex variables in a monochromatic observation at a structural confluence on a walk around town.
“It’s not the subject of narration that interests me, but the structure.” – Dumitru Tepeneag