Dune fortification
Erosion persists
On the move
Near continuous winds whip over the barrier islands, shifting sand as as natural process of geological progression. Tropical storms and hurricanes accelerate the kinetic processes of beach evolution. There are obvious limits to mankind’s control.
“These beaches were never meant to be static. This is the most dynamic geological process on the planet. It can, and it does, change overnight.” – Danny Couch
City street
Poetic power
Absorbing adventure
Light and shadow relationships define the transitory moment, as all worldly contact can assume creative possibilities. On any given intersection encounter, object demarcations merge into an amalgamation of imagination.
“Every great imaginative conception is a vortex into which everything under the sun may be swept.” – John Livingston Lowes
Object grounded
Depth and space
Incident ray
The sun at a low angle shines on the earth, skimming close to the horizon and distributing energy over an extensive area. Objects in the path correspondingly interact with the radiation intensity concentration.
“If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light.” – Stefani Germanotta
Winter snow
Angled sun
Observation
Looking down provides interest as snow simplifies the visual palette. Such close encounters consider biota as a geomorphological agent having a role in shaping the Earth’s surface.
“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” – Henry Miller
Outside exploring
Construct internalize
Uncluttered fringe
Object relationships have their own reality detached from subjective emotions and life. The inherent intricacy and complexity of an idea can be revealed with very few elements. Less is often eminently refined.
“It isn’t necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality as a whole, is what is interesting. ” – Donald Judd
True demonstrative
Context expression
Space time location
As energy interacts with matter, shadows offer reverse projection evidence of some observer independent state of affairs. Opaque objects exist in a geometric setting tempered by a momentary incandescence.
“The indexical interpretation of an implicit argument functions as a kind
of default.” – Barbara Partee
Landmark sign
Opulent hotel
Historical heritage
Continuing relevance to contemporary experience, remnants of the past are scattered throughout the urban topography, providing a synchronic stimulus to consider the temporal and heteronymous nature of existence.
“It was a palace, no doubt, and throughout much of the 1900’s, it would evolve into what might very well have been the city’s social epicenter, hosting a seemingly endless carousel of presidents, athletes, writers and actors.” – Dugan Arnett
Broadest sense
Theatrical implications
Extreme consciousness
Arbitrarily frequenting an approximate spatial location in the metropolis, similar ambient lighting conditions stimulate a reciprocal aesthetic response. Nevertheless, each individual event is its own standard, open to feeling and enjoyment as an isolated duration.
“It seems that expectation creates a void in us, that it prepares the resumption of being, and helps us to understand destiny; in short, expectation makes temporal frameworks in order to receive memories.” – Gaston Bachelard
Consciously entertaining
Further examination
Impermanence inclination
Cast across senescent pavement deep in the city, an indexical shadow forms a stimulating orderliness motif. Pattern recognition is a visual key to inductive thinking.
“Either there is something about the immediate occasion which affords knowledge of the past and the future, or we are reduced to utter skepticism as to memory and induction.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Strong referential
Evidence everywhere
Mythic dimension
Not only can we see negative absences of illumination, created by opaque physical objects as they obstruct incident light, we can also feel the presence of real positive shadows.
“The holographic attempt literally jumps over its shadow, and plunges into transparency, to lose itself there.” – Jean Baudrillard