Matter

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

History of things
One form to another
Any moment whatever

Delineated by sensation, conceptually time is habitually divided into determinate periods of particularity.

“Time is not divided objectively in one way or another by the matter that fills it.” – Henri Bergson

Matter mass
Distinct bodies
Interest action

Illumination is a moving target.

“There is no doubt that life as a whole is an evolution, that is, an unceasing transformation.” – Henri Bergson

Divergent series
Manifold tendencies
Outward representations

A weathered storage trailer supports a folding ladder.

“Fabricating consists in shaping matter, in making it supple and in bending it, in converting it into an instrument in order to become master of it.” – Henri Bergson

Bind together
Sympathy intuition
Space barrier

For its substance, art interrogates existence in general.

“Intelligence remains the luminous nucleus around which instinct, even enlarged and purified into intuition, forms only a vague nebulosity.” – Henri Bergson

Ingrained tendency
Insistent postulation
While not at sea

Near a mooring port, replica old-ship tourist ramps are secured with rope.

“Matter represents the refusal to think away spatial and temporal characteristics and to arrive at the bare concept of an individual entity.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Different departments
Of knowledge
Connected by use

Small hue shifts away from neutral gray are aesthetically rewarding.

“Nature can be thought of as a closed system whose mutual relations do not require the expression of the fact that they are thought about.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Work alone
Admiration absent
Beyond encouragement

Things cast aside do not disappear.

“I was in such a state of mental agitation, in such great confusion that for a time I feared my weak reason would not survive…. Now it seems I am better that I see more clearly the direction my studies are taking.” – Paul Cézanne