Soul creeps
Forces absolute
Bind them scary
Confront a nefarious spirit in a public space to render a set of implicit claims.
“The Underworld sings from earth that will no longer embrace me, abandoned by gravity exhaling nothing I still remember soft tissue.” – Linda Addison
Immanent structural
Inherently temporal
Terminating constraint
Animate and inanimate structures collaborate.
“Action that is perfectly in conformity with a law, is not necessarily entailed or otherwise necessitated by that law.” – Robert Hanna
Aging portal
Natural order
Reclamation
The consequences of time are inevitable.
“The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.” – Bill Cosby
Stillness holds
Under-lying dead
Roots wrapt about
A bench and road-sign stand in the midst of confederate soldiers last remains.
“The living come with grassy tread, To read the gravestones on the hill; The graveyard draws the living still, But never anymore the dead.” – Robert Frost
Object contours
Sensuous distinctness
Immanent signification
Something in an object is experienced and captured by the receptive subject, establishing an aesthetic alliance.
“For we cannot forget that this form must be read by perception.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Ship related
Dockside purpose
Durable resilient
Objects yield to a formal schema which binds them to certain rules granting an official status.
“Every art involves its own techniques and calls for a peculiar mode of composition.” – Mikel Dufrenne
In equilibrium
Opposing force
Extension fragments
Leaning against an old brick building in the rain, two cast iron bed frame headboards collaborate.
“Consciousness does not begin to exist until it sets limits to an object, and even the phantoms of ‘internal experience’ are possible only as things borrowed from external experience.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Own realities
Fortuitous futures
Alternate continuity
A new chrome sculpture in Newport News pivots around several fulcrums.
“I want to keep different options for different futures open all the time.” – Caroline Polachek
Form of thought
Determines the shape
Facts perceived
Aesthetic opportunities are about attitude and recognition of potentialities.
“When I posit the facts with the shape they have for me to-day, I suppose my faculties of perception and intellection such as they are in me to-day; for it is they that portion the real into lots, they that cut the facts out in the whole of reality.” – Henri Bergson
Freshly created
Seldom allowed
Position occupation
Freshly sealed asphalt in a parking garage is otherworldly.
“It is certain with me that the world exists anew every moment; that the existence of things every moment ceases and is every moment renewed.” – Jonathan Edwards