Conditioning

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

Caboose Detail

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

Operational

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

Artillery Actuator

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

Fishing Pier

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

Priorities

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

Walkover

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

Perfect 10

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

Coleman Bridge

Early evening
Underlying harmony
Essence of things

Looking forward to developing an intimate relationship with this bridge under diverse conditions.

“If we pay attention to these relationships between places and spaces, and between spaces and space, we also find a basis for reflection upon the relationship between man and space.” – Martin Heidegger

Patina

Thin layer
Variously forms
On the surface

Aesthetically appealing patinas can provide a protective covering to materials that would otherwise be damaged by corrosion, weathering, or bombardment.

“The past objective world, though necessary as the ground upon which present subjectivity “stands,” offers no reason for the living immediacy of the present moment.” – Alfred North Whitehead

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