Pelicans

Drifting through
Open view
Slip away

Flowing like an endless stream, the artist aesthetically responds to that which is given.

“There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.” – John Lennon

Movement raises
Contradiction vanishes
Natural propensity

Variation marks the continuous cycles inherent to time passage.

“Eternity no longer hovers over time, as an abstraction; it underlies time, as a reality.” – Henri Bergson

Various processes
Distinctive capacity
Homeostasis maintenance

Suddenly there are many more dead birds on the beach. Perhaps seasonal change and migration patterns play a role.

“I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” – Mark Twain

Roll in layers
Globular masses
Individual elements

Pelicans are active under all atmospheric conditions.

“Hope is a mackerel sky.” – Rainbow Harvest

Change of season
New life ahead
Away from here

A large pelican flight formation passes over the morning dune.

“The character of the spatio-temporal structure of events can be fully expressed in terms of relations between these more abstract event-particles.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Attribute sorts
Fluid boundaries
Individual variants

Over the morning ocean cometh the pelicans.

“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” – Charles Darwin

Trajectory traced
Domains and subdomains
Interactive dynamics

Each frame of reference is ultimately associated with a sentient being. Subjectively feeling, perceiving, and experiencing define sentience.

“If we describe a body moving through a space over a time, we are describing motion, but we are also assuming a more primary nonkinetic and immobile space-time within which this motion occurs.” – Thomas Nail

Perennial grass
Upper dune
Beach front

Along the coast working the wind, pelicans cruise just over the barrier dune.

“The panicles are made up of many flat spikelets containing seed. The panicle turns from green to straw colored in late summer as the plant matures.” – R. Alan Shadow

Flowing over
Water surface
Aerodynamic lift

Sometimes pelicans fly in formation just over the ocean surface. A beneficial ground effect occurs when flying at approximately half the wingspan length above the water.

“Nature always tends to act in the simplest way. All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.” – Daniel Bernoulli

Imminent experience
Primordial sensibility
Seascape interweave

Magic comes around every morning.

“Thought is a relationship with oneself and with the world as well as a relationship with the other; hence it is established in the three dimensions at the same time.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty