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
Swamp water
Bacteria interacting
With iron compounds
Anaerobic bacterial processes reduce iron that occurs naturally in the wet swamp soil producing a thin, opalescent film on the water’s surface.
“One quick field test sometimes suggested for determining whether an iridescent layer on water is from iron bacteria or petroleum is to stir it a bit with a stick.” – Priscilla Hollingsworth
Optical axis perpendicular
Imaginary two dimensional
Front plane focus
On the edge of Ocean Lake, a complex radiation pattern is presented.
“When we focus a camera at an object a definite distance from the camera lens there is a finite range of distances within and beyond the focused object in which everything appears acceptably in focus, while outside that range everything becomes progressively more blurred at increasing distances from the plane of best focus.” – Rudolf Kingslake
Changing arrangement
Become established
New location
Seeking a more favorable fishing venue may involve cognitive decision making functions.
“There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience. ” – Deepak Chopra
Conditions existing
Abundantly manifest
Vigorous environment
The drainage ditch creates its own ecosystem.
“Gravity tends to pull fertility downhill.” – Joel Salatin