Matter

Bright light
Dim world
Thick foliage

The light diffuses and becomes friendly in the maritime forest, completely hidden in plain sight.

“She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.” – Jerry Spinelli

Elementary concerns
Permanent sense
Ineffable reward

A timeless absorption found in creative activity, life is about translating experience.

“Home is a feeling about yourself, not the place around you, and you can take it with you.” – Neil Peart

Sequence shape
Committed structure
Lonely seasons pass

There is always a lot going on beneath surface appearance. Everything in life is about timing.

“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.” – Albert Camus

Object motif
Earlier epoch
Formulating ideology

Exercising control over nature and land use developed among humans long ago as a subsistence strategy. Functional agrarian structures support an economy based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland.

“So we thought that our photos would give the viewer the chance to go back to a time that is gone forever.” – Bernd Becher

Fresh resonance
Necessarily limited
State of mind

More than a subject of artistic inquiry, water reflections offer a high fidelity, richly detailed, visual involvement.

“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.” – Claude Monet

Immediate experience
Intellectually appealing
Reserves hidden within

As seemingly frozen moments in time, various states of static equilibrium are experienced throughout existence. Free choice is necessarily concerned with the ways in which life is shaped by given external forces and structures.

“The aspects of our existence that limit us are the very same ones that bind us to the world and give us scope for action and perception.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Urban moment
Surrounding scene
Artistic inspiration

A key tenet of mindfulness suggests that we normally miss many interesting stimuli in the present moment. Mundane sameness and boring circumstances are states of mind.

“Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.” – Sonia Ricotti

Various genera
Visible colonies
Aquatic ecosystem

In the summertime, many bodies of water in the temperate zone contain a population of algae, appearing as coloration in the water from associated pigments. These can be scummy and look like paint spilled on the surface of the water.

“Innumerable microscopic algae help anchor aquatic ecosystems; they turn sunlight into food, and themselves serve as food for water-dwelling frogs, fish, snails, and insects.” – Marion Renault

Material substratum
Some way accounts
Surrounding area

Looking down, grounding is variegated in the sense of surface characteristics and determinant coarse-grained relations. This implies that facts about physical particles ground facts about larger object fields.

“It’s a familiar idea that the world—understood as the fusion of all concrete entities—has an overarching layered structure.” – Edward N. Zalta

Smooth character
Dromedary ungulate
Walk a mile

Lost cigarettes are subject to the forces of nature on the beach. One of a kind, perhaps seawater and sand curing improves the subtle Turkish blend. Camel time.

“Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out of cigarettes.” – Jeffrey McDaniel