Piercing the plane
Resting upon
Horizontal layered form
The image is not a static entity but a seed of semiosis, a catalyst for an unending chain of interpretations.
“The essence of belief is the establishment of habit.” – Charles Sanders Peirce
Row of empty arms
Waiting for something
To hold
Metaphysics is about seeing the unseen, hearing the unheard, knowing that even in emptiness there’s something there.
“All I can do is be me, whoever that is.” – Bob Dylan
Distillation selection
Salient features
Manufactured entity
Our cognitive capacities far exceed the limited input we receive from the environment.
“It’s not that I have any evidence that I’m right, but it’s not that other people have any evidence that they’re right either.” – Noam Chomsky
Apparent simplicity
Intricate workings
Underlying systems
Perception is not a direct transcription of reality but a subjective interpretation, a dance between the observed and the observer.
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anaïs Nin
Fabric of experience
Woven into
Act of seeing
The translucent layers, overlapping and interpenetrating, evoke the fluid and interconnected nature of our lived experience.
“Experience in its vital form is a matter of interaction of organism and environment.” – John Dewey
Canvas upon
Paint narratives
Silent partner
Your internal state significantly influences your external reality.
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
Quietly compelling
Evocation interaction
Qualitative dimension
John Dewey suggests that it is in the “undergoing” of an experience, in the dwelling upon its qualities, that we find its aesthetic value.
“The emotions are not mere accompaniments of experience; they are integral parts of it.” – John Dewey
Melancholy
Everyday poetry
In its stillness
Seemingly oblivious to the chaos that surrounds it, a defiant splash of color sits against a muted backdrop.
“The world is full of magic, but we have to know how to see it.” – Ray K. Metzker
Conceptual weight
Discarded tire
Half-buried
The tire, marred by time and exposure, becomes a vessel of sorts, cradling a collection of debris – plastic, organic matter, perhaps a frayed rope – all partially obscured by a film of sand.
“To see something as art requires something the eye cannot descry.” – Arthur Danto
Fleeting
Immediate
Sensuous
The aesthetic individual is forever in pursuit of the infinite, the absolute, but finds themselves trapped in the finite, the immediate.
“The aesthetic man is always in search of something beyond himself, something that will give his life meaning.” – Soren Kierkegaard