Virtual state
Come into view
Passes into actual
The natural environment and internal interaction foster emotional outcomes. When engaged with a specific environmental venue, repeated visits engender nuance.
“We do not perceive things in ourselves, but at the place where they are. We only grasp the past at the place where it is in itself, and not in ourselves, in our present.” – Gilles Deleuze
Kindred impression
Open to influence
Integrity impression
There is always a close relationship between internal constitution and natural exterior appearance. The fortuitous jumble of compounding components require mental organization.
“The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Smell of rain
World glimpses
Time overlaps itself
Pulling away the cover of routine, simple delights unfold everyday under all kinds of conditions. Appreciate each ephemeral opportunity.
“Ferns were striving towards the light, spiraled stems uncoiling into fronds.” – Kate Morton
Inquiry into causes
Adapting questioning
Physical discourses
A hike through wetland habitats, surrounded by a hardwood forest interspersed with pines, adds experiential material for a probing consciousness. Awareness is locally implemented.
“Aristotle did not, however, presuppose that the first causes in question had to be something higher than the causes he had already discovered in the order of nature or of human experience.” – Oliva Blanchette
Occupy space
Twisted limbs
Spreading expansion
On a stroll through the Currituck Banks Reserve, an excellent encounter with an iconic live oak specimen transpires.
“Without any companion it grew there, glistening out with joyous leaves of dark green.” – Walt Whitman
Rejected bycatch
Untargeted species
Commercial fishing
Suddenly one morning, many dead or dying rays are found washed up on the beach. Such cartilaginous fishes cannot recover rapidly if their populations are depleted.
“If we truly want to save the ocean’s most fascinating creatures, we must stop supporting the industries that are destroying them.” – Julie Cappiello
Elongated eyestalks
Unequally sized claws
Semiterrestrial generalist
Ghost crabs are nimble runners, scooting away at the slightest indication of danger. In fact, the genius name Ocypode means “swift-footed” in Latin. This particular representative, however, was uncharacteristically lethargic.
“I once had a patient who was convinced that his head was full of sea water and a crab lived inside.” – Michael Robotham
Resurgence
Regenerative
Recovery
The fresh spring sensibility always tends to enlighten faith in natural processes.
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space.” – Albert Einstein
Keeled dorsal scales
Behind the dunes
In gray branches
Spotted on the trail to the beach, an unusual organic object is draped in the adjoining brush thicket.
“The map is not the territory.” – Alfred Korzybski
Walk down pond
Catch some sun
Turn her loose
A patient and tolerant ‘branta canadensis’ incubates eggs in a nest, but I don’t believe she knows I am an artist. Many concurrent things can happen in nature.
“I’m very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.” – Ian Anderson