Indexicality

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

Restless energization
Splayed forth as time
Among appearances

In the relationship of reason to nature, the individual raises itself to the highest power of consciousness through a rational and graduated sequence of intuitions. The same powers of intuition that reside in the self also manifests by degrees in nature. To confer upon the whole an internal coherence which time cannot touch, no necessary intervening step can be omitted.

“We feel time as a continuous flow, with no clearly demarcated beginnings and ends.” – John-Francis Phipps

Molecular movements
Walls of significance
Organized strata

Moving in close isolates intimate details of the American Duchess, a river paddlewheeler based in Baton Rouge.

“The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.” – Gilles Deleuze

Illuminated moment
Quintessential tracks
Lilting grace

Something cannot come from nothing, indicting that an aspect of being must exist in a permanent absolute form. Logically, something that is permanent cannot transform into something else without its subsequent termination. Therefore, the shifting duality that arises within the absolute itself is a self-distinction of the indivisible absoluteness into subject and object.

“All things now being marked with the names of light and of darkness, Yea, set apart by the various powers of the one or the other, Surely the All is at once full of light and invisible darkness, Both being equal, and naught being common to one with the other.” – Parmenides