Instrumentality

Watertight windows
Hull structure
Interior illumination

Ship shape and rusting.

“You’re a cavity in my oasis, You’re a porthole in my sea, You’re a stretch of the imagination every time you look at me.” – Charlotte M. Liebel

Material elements
Fragmenting space
Sequestration

Things are sometimes found in unexpected places.

“Poetry is what he turns to these days, finding in its fragmentation the proper echo of the disintegrating world.” – Lauren Groff

Inferred adjustment
Innumerable possibilities
Physical object perception

Framing and extraction are important elements of abstraction.

“It is an essential characteristic of a physical object that its situation is an active condition for its perception..”– Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Railroad car
Crew accommodations
End attached

Technology has rendered the caboose an unnecessary end-of-train termination.

“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Fishing vessel
Commercial profit
Reduced sustainability

Industrial fishermen harvest a broad spectrum of aquatic animals.

“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” -Henry David Thoreau

Machine device
Converting energy
Mechanical force

The potential to achieve physical movement may be corrosion frozen.

“The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.” — Michael Hastings

Lamppost
Breakwater
Reflections

A multi-use utilitarian structure found in Newport News offers timelessness.

“Completed in 2008, the City of Newport News received a grant of $440,833 to create the fishing pier on top of the existing wavescreen.” – Michael D. Poplawski

Being condition
Regarded treated
Most important

A venerable tradition of contemporary photography materialized in full form.

“And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.” — Christo

Sensitive dunes
Linking inland
To the water

Covering about 71 percent of Earth’s surface, the ocean always follows its own inclinations.

“In times of surge or storm events, it is often obvious exactly where people have been crossing to get to the water.” — Erika Zambello

Human exertion
Appreciable effect
Advantageous deterioration

Photography is an active collaboration with a dynamic existence.

“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.” — Robert Hughes