Nature

Little critter
Lives in
Oyster gills

Pinnotheres ostreum is a little known rare delicacy.

“Once they enter an oyster, they live inside the oyster’s gills and feed on the food that filters in.” – Connie Lu

Intimate texture
Dialectical image
Past present fused

No longer passive observers of a landscape, we are active participants in a dialogue with the ephemeral and the eternal.

“The smallest detail … can be the opening to a world.” – Walter Benjamin

On the beach
Grandview nature preserve
Lower Chesapeake bay

Sometimes organic structures wash-up out of the depths.

“Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” – Loren Eiseley

Unique separate
Dynamic processes
Life death

The leaf is not simply a thing, but rather a process of becoming.

“The individual entity is a process of becoming, not a being. It is a process of self-creation, in which it is constantly becoming something new.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Star-shaped
Echinoderm
Wonderment

Starfish have tube feet operated by a hydraulic system and a mouth at the center of the oral or lower surface.

“In the vast oceanic universe starfishes are the stars in the sky of the shore…” – Munia Khan

Neatly angled
Long pairings
Bushy clusters

My backyard mahonia sports spiny evergreen foliage with orange outbreaks.

“I think mahonia is a beautiful, colorful, and interesting plant!” – Sharon Galbreath

Accessing the pure
Duration of reality
As it is

The direct and immediate apprehension of reality does not rely on reason or analysis.

“Art is not an imitation of reality, but a creation of reality. The artist does not simply copy what he sees, but rather he reveals the hidden essence of reality. He does this by presenting us with images that are constantly changing and evolving. These images are not static, but rather they are dynamic and alive.” – Henri Bergson

Evocative essence
Light complexity
Process growth

Things are all interconnected and constantly changing.

“The world is a process of becoming, not a fixed system of being.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Dynamic process
Interrelated with
Its environment

Reality is ultimately unknowable, but its essence can be exposed by studying dynamic processes.

“Process is the becoming of reality.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Physical matter
Mental synthesis
Interplay

By combining mental representations, given visual opportunities are expanded.

“The more you learn, the more you can create.” – Albert Einstein