Bird grasshopper
Schistocerca damnifica
Confined by environment
A rather large and prominent Outer Banks hopper is found alone in a bush on the edge of ocean lake.
“Grasshopper, seek first to know your own journeys beginning and end…But in this seeking, know patience.” – Master Po
Presumptive end
Derived from evidence
Affair complex
Adjacent to someone’s backyard property, nature progresses independently.
“But here, at this decisive point in the process of beginning, we must penetrate deeper with our meditations.” – Edmund Husserl
Continually evolving
Specific entities
Ontological primacy
Sometimes reflecting surfaces operate at divergent focal points.
“But the thing holds itself aloof from us and remains self-sufficient.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Indigenous
Microbial process
Surface sheen
Certain anaerobic bacteria derive their energy by oxidizing dissolved ferrous iron, producing thin-film interference color patterns on still swamp water.
“The rainbow sheens found as a thin film on top of pooled water in swamps and marshes are the result of natural oils released by decaying vegetation or the biological processes of anaerobic bacteria reducing iron in soil.” – Jeff Ripple
Lived experience
Intimate relation
Territory of time
In the swamp, fallen leaves pile-up and flatten-out under incessant water pressure.
“Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.” – Barbara Hurd
Ontological status
Conceptual perspective
Articulates itself
Time manifests in all natural and organic circumstances.
“Knowledge presupposes that the world affects us and our instruments, that there is an interaction between the knower and the known, and that this interaction creates a difference between past and future.” – Ilya Prigogine
Meaning dimension
World constitution
Transcendental turn
The experiential and the lived dimension of meaning builds with each aesthetic expedition.
“Experience already contains meaning and relationship and thus need not obtain coherence from the synthetic activity of a pre-existing subject.” – Archana Barua
Reflex mirror
Optical path
Summer dream
Fondly remembering warm humid days.
“Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.” – Yoko Ono
Stalks carefully
On grassy edge
Present concentrate
In an early morning glow, my attention is drawn to these graceful and elegant white waders.
“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.” – Rumi
Between trees
Over swamp
Entanglement
A marbled orbweaver in this circumstance provided excellent color contrast.
“The longer the web takes, the more fabulous its construction.” – Donna Lynn Hope