Experience significant
Wholeness renewal
Pure contemplation
Satisfying an ardent human appetite, being present on the beach facilitates a provisional escape from necessity.
“For the aesthetically creative mind, art is the transformation of the common world of perceptual experience into the unique realm of imaginative thought plus its adequate recording in some material form.” – Max Schoen
Rhythmic relations
Tension counterpoint
Relentless spirit
Effects from a cause, external fragmentary experience is always sequential, transitory, and partial. Responding to stimulus, incomplete sensory information from an impersonal world is transformed into a uniquely distinctive mental construct. Under certain internal and external conditions, a fantastic rhapsodic dream manifests.
“The form must so fit the content, the mater must so clothe the ideas, that the two are merged, wedded, and united to a point when matter loses its identity by becoming idea.” – Max Schoen
External world
Immediate awareness
Ones own living
A terrestrial extremity articulation, the ocean presents itself as a revelation of existence. As both unity coherence and an intensification of perceived physical boundary discontinuances, experienced sensations structure mental organizing activity.
“Life designates a pure manifestation, always irreducible to that of the world, an original revelation that is not a revelation of another thing and does not depend on anything other, but is rather a revelation of that absolute self-revelation that is Life itself.” – Michel Henry
Symphonic form
Irresistible movement
Primitive variations
Just prior to dawn, an immediate impression of external nature stimulates a spontaneous inner expression largely instinctive. The constraints of form are generators of imagination, developing categorization by ascribing relations to pattern cognizance.
“That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.” – Wassily Kandinsky
Sky above
Sand below
Coastal colors
Penetrating the surface of experience, the sea possesses a potent power to stimulate pleasant thought on another welcome encounter with the dynamic shoreline. Certain physical boundaries always encourage aesthetic wonder.
“Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.” – John Tyndall
Simple actants
Infinite multiplicity
Universal compulsion
Emphasizing the meaning of aesthetics, Bergson defines metaphysics as the mind striving to transcend the conditions of useful action, coming back to itself as a pure creative energy. The dynamic pattern that we subsequently infer anticipates the universe as its scaffolding.
“Here I am in the presence of images, in the vaguest sense of the word, images perceived when my senses are opened to them, unperceived when they are closed.” – Henri Bergson
Free movement
Impulsive principle
Reciprocity prevails
Actual physical things together with their associated mental ideas, under creative influence, proceed and spring forth collaboratively. It is conceivable that force is infinite in its eternal ebb and flow.
“So long as I myself am identical with Nature, I understand what a living nature is as well as I understand my own life; I apprehend how this universal life of Nature reveals itself in manifold forms, in progressive developments, in gradual approximations to freedom.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Implicit feature
Essential entity
Surface disturbance
Consciousness exists to the extent a human experiences it. At natural interface boundaries, the nature of the relation between subjective human reality and objective independent reality comes alive. In consciousness, phenomenal appearance is reality.
“Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.” – John Rogers Searle