On a Wall

Fragmentary march
Assumptions connect
Transport details

A change agent encourages us to experience the world in a more immediate and direct way.

“Art can help us to understand ourselves better. By looking at art, we can come to see ourselves reflected in the work. We can see our own hopes, dreams, and fears embodied in the art.” – Mikel Dufrenne

Densely Packed

Advantageous lighting
Valuables offered
Sale presentation

Successful organization of clutter confusion can be satisfying.

“Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.” – Edward R. Murrow

Tidal Wash

Surface layer
Foreign matter
Pollen dust

Randomness generated by Elizabeth River water oscillation in the “Chrysler Museum of Art” tidal basin.

“Spontaneous horizontal segregation of graded sediment can occur under certain conditions.” – Job Dronkers

Zenith

B&H
Body forms
Top shelf

On the celestial sphere, the zenith is an imaginary point directly “above” a particular location.

“The quality goes in before the name goes on.” – Zenith Radio Company

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Depreciate
Mark down
Diminish

Abstraction in action is all around us.

“Objects are not just data structures, they are active agents that encapsulate data and operations that work on that data.” – Grady Booch

Recontextualized

Surprising depth
Beneath the surface
Pile of paintings

Sensation is our window on the universe and the way we perceive the world shapes who we are.

“The recontextualization of semiotic material is broadly understood as a discursive practice through which intertextual (and interdiscursive) relations between two utterances produced at different historical moments are established.” – Helmut Gruber

Kramer’s New Haven

High fashion
Designer brand
Vintage mink coat

The voice of material consumption and luxury is illuminated by a more emotional and aesthetic value system.

“What labels me, negates me.” – Soren Kierkegaard

Many a Fancy

Airy thought
What beginnings
What ends

Sometimes things just seem to be consummate.

“Somewhere inside this ink bottle there is a starry sky! Don’t keep the lid on your ink bottle too long.” – Robert Sund

As They Appear

Illuminated apse
Material essence
Sensible qualities

Not mere rubber forms but potential sources of joy and delight.

“”No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” – Aristotle

Woven Tapestry

Tiny universe
Trapped gateway
Experience web

Their beauty is not inherent in the objects themselves, but in the way that we experience them.

“The world is not something we look at but something we live through.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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