Weather Change

Seagull cluster
Over the sea
Surrounding air pressure

Some wild animals are adapted to detect physical change and thus anticipate impending environmental developments.

“Seagulls are sensitive to slight fluctuations in air and water pressure that occur before a storm, and thus they are able to adjust their flight and behavior to accommodate for any changes in weather.” – Mehmet Murat ildan

Perceive as Vulnerable

Habitually harm
Theft intimidation
Domineering bully

Larger birds often decide it is easier to steal food from a smaller bird rather than work for it themselves.

“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.” – Abraham Lincoln

Light Wave

Water transmitted
Low sun angle
Early morning

Seeing things in the moment and trying new capture techniques keeps life interesting.

“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.” – John Lubbock

Physical Conditions

Phenomena intensity
Surface consciousness
Perception movement

On some days the seagulls clump together with more vigor.

“To remember freedom, it will be enough to watch a happy seagull flying in the sky!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

Enigmatic Engagement

Early morning rendezvous
Solitary natural light
Rise before dawn

The most enchanting Atlantic light occurs in the hour before sunrise.

“The ocean is full of untamed magic.” – Claudia Noble

Congregation

Strength in numbers
Location organized
For a little while

Possessing a strong societal structure, seagulls seem to enjoy hanging out together.

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” – Arthur C. Clarke

Emergence Dynamics

Time available
Resource organization
Inherently subjective

True crepuscular rays start when the sun is below the horizon during twilight hours. Dependent on vagaries of stratospheric cloud cover, such occurrences are a spiritually magical moment in the solar cycle.

“Each agent is itself a stochastic dynamical system, since it may sample, or be plagued by, the uncontrollable randomness in its substrates and in environmental stimuli.” – James P. Crutchfield

Something Known

Manifest itself
Sensuous presentation
Consciousness intervention

Moving though space and time can primarily be an aesthetic experience.

“Although the work is caught up in human time, it also belongs to the time of things in terms of that part of’ itself which is a thing in the world.” – Mikel Dufrenne

Spatiotemporal Scales

Open system
Ecological entities
Observational predicates

The ocean lake development area is a reliable early morning aesthetic destination, even as wilderness struggles for survival in an environment modified for human occupation.

“Moreover, biodiversity conservation does not occur in a sociopolitical vacuum.” – Sahotra Sarkar

Individual Initiative

Necessity itself
Instrument of freedom
Infinitely subtle

The morning flux is full of spontaneous moments, all working on the cumulative mystery of existence.

“For consciousness corresponds exactly to the living being’s power of choice; it is coextensive with the fringe of possible action that surrounds the real action: consciousness is synonymous with invention and with freedom.” – Henri Bergson

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