Night

Posit totality
Primacy of reality
Affirmative essence

Even the walk to the beach before dawn offers interesting aesthetic potential.

“Pleasure masquerades beyond recognition in the Kantian disinterestedness.” – Theodor W. Adorno

Tapestry dream
Power to resolve
Mysterious places

The benefit of unimagined possibilities offers freedom from narrow and personal aims. In the procession of uncertainty, we are wonderfully fortunate that the future is ambiguous.

“We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

Element mix
Transitional rhythm
Harmonic language

A magical ambience claims mental energy as night descends on the journey. Possibilities for perceptual meaning transcend the ordinary.

“At the root of all creativity one finds the possession of something that is more than earthly fruit.” – Igor Stravinsky

Increasingly intimate
Living forms
Of engagement

Receptive to multiple stimuli, dense fog invigorates thought and permeates ideas with color, widening the extent of reality.

“When mere sensation is a sufficient guide, the upper regions of the brain and mind are set comparatively free.” – William James

Current conversation
Alternating versatile
Enigmatic intricacies

The dynamic interactions of electromagnetic radiation shift dramatically as night descends. Transition boundaries offer opportunities for acute aesthetic awareness.

“Could something like a “phase transition” involve dimensions that are more transitory then we imagined.” – R.A. Delmonico

Expedition wide
Bidirectional interface
Tactical coordination

After a long exhausting but extremely satisfying day of intense exploration, we arrive back at the base-camp for an evening of rest and recovery. Much more exhilarating adventure awaits the next diurnal cycle.

“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.” – Roman Payne

Circumstantial factors
Implicational relationship
Conditioning consequence

A complete snow cover, coupled to sparsely distributed town lights, make a night walk in West Yellowstone an engaging aesthetic experience. Negotiating the intersection of contrasts in motion, new patterns appear that create each transitory moment.

“Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer

Illumined dusk
Atmospheric walking
Manassas platform

In the continued narrative of progression, some industrial revolution remnants of nineteenth century technology linger-on in the twenty first century. The Manassas Train Station was built in 1914 and yet remains one of the busiest AMTRAK stops in the region. It conveys many commuters engaged in repetitive periodic travel between residence and work. Although commuting induced psychosomatic disorders are moderately reduced by eliminating driving, all incessant societal stressors take their toll.

“If you are happy in the station, then the station becomes your train! In other words, if you are happy where you are, it means that you are already traveling!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

Residual indirect stage
Relative diffusibility
Colorful spectacle

While immersed in the swirling energy streams of mixed radiation, an absorbing and atmospheric stroll through the old part of town leads into the heart of darkness.

“It’s not an hour at all, just a few seconds of blue light between dusk and night, when everything is both clearest and most obscure — a light that challenges perception, revealing and hiding.” – John Rechy

Collecting data
Observe activities
Therapeutic focus

Out on the street in the cool of the evening, a wide variety of human activities and interactions manifest, providing fodder for entertainment. The entirety of existence presents a continuous performance.

“I like to prowl ordinary places and taste the people – from a distance.” – Charles Bukowski