Night

Rudimentary presentation
Cognitive phenomena
On its own as will

Light emerges from the spirited shadows on a rural country road during the blue hour. Speculative photography entails experimentation, as the objective is annexed to the subjective.

“All knowledge is founded upon the coincidence of an objective with a subjective. For we know only what is true; but truth is generally taken to consist in the coincidence of presentations with their objects.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

River overlook
Watch the sunset
Over delta levees

In downtown Baton Rouge, a one-mile waterfront promenade offers interesting views of the setting sun. The reality and ultimacy of nature is in full display as the mighty Mississippi River indifferently flows by.

“The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time.” – Norman Maclean

Made memories
Wild vitality
Slip away

Schelling explores succession in a way analogous to Bergson’s duration. The question is not whether and how the assemblage of phenomena and the series of causes and effects, which we call the course of nature, has become actual outside us. The question rather relates to how succession becomes manifest for us.

“It is impossible to distinguish between the duration, however short it may be, that separates two instants and a memory that connects them, because duration is essentially a continuation of what no longer exists into what does exist.” – Henri Bergson

Oblique rays
Edge portions
Tangential coma

Sometimes the aberrations of life are the most interesting aspects.

“I’m prone to tangential digressions, but I’ve never regretted being remarkably inconsistent: it’s led me to fascinating people and interesting stories.” – Natalie MacLean

Interval intensity
Dynamic character
Vicariously engaging

In the course of experiencing nature, the assemblage of events and associated cause and effect succession are interdependent internal and external phenomena. They become actual in our minds only insofar as they themselves follow one another.

“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” – Alan W. Watts

Practical standpoints
Encompassed within
Significant difference

Sensation is a biological adaptation to a contextual presentation that suits an organism’s needs. Meanwhile, representations are mediated and constructed signs that stand for a referred object.

“Representation is distinguished in consciousness by the subject from the subject and object, and is referred to both.” – Karl Leonhard Reinhold

Synthesized judgment
Differentiated knowledge
Purely privative

The idea of connaturality is expressed by Schelling as ‘absolute identity.’ This transitivity links the two aspects of being – the ever changing multiplicity of the particular with the stable universal. The intrinsic incompleteness of all finite determinations uncovers the complexion of the absolute.

“Existence is the link of a being as One, with itself as a multiplicity.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Complex riches
Multifarious degrees
Internal distinction

Many realities manifest in the front yard during nocturnal activities.

“No one can be aware of the real meaning of unity without an equal grasp of the sense of distinction.” – Jacques Maritain