Lead the way
Walk the walk
Individual identity
Portions of personal identity outwardly travel through radiation fields, as the shadowself responds to choices made over the course of daily occurrences.
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away.” – Pascal Mercier
Encounter between
Obsequious dependency
Displacements
Constraining shaped things to serve specific intents, the shadowself extemporizes itself within a sunlit interior. In a living world, interactive networks extend far beyond the physical body and immediate surroundings.
“We cannot bear the thought of objects having an autonomous life, even if this life is ultimately attributable to us.” – Steven Shaviro
Sufficiently elaborate
Sensible acquaintance
Current tactile resources
Light interactions define perception of visual objects as the primacy of judgmental content. The relative negative absence of a physical force is as real as any positive manifestation.
“The term ‘episode’ is elastic enough to cover a great deal of territory.” – Wilfrid Sellars
Defy the universal
Categorize and label
Irresistible compulsion
Self integration into a geometrical moment establishes a close personal relationship to qualitative change. Real time is present.
“For current purposes only those things which exist at the present moment — now — really exist at all; and the only qualities which these things really possess are the qualities that they possess now.” – E. J. Lowe
Unified being
Essentially distinct
Awareness agency
Personal identity over time can occasionally manifest across physical domains. Under certain requisites, knowledge of the self augments as an apparent reverse projection of an opaque object blocking radiation.
“I do not depart here from my lifelong conviction that art is miraculously precise and communicative in its own domain of fused spirit and sensation.” – Jacques Barzun
Physical object
Proprioceptive relationship
Visual feedback
Manifesting object relationships in space and time that interact and impact other entities, the shadowself always sticks closely to the surrounding material environment.
“With practice we can learn to engage these types of heightened states and see new opportunities for interpretations in our thoughts, emotions, and conversations.” – Gary van Warmerdam
Situated at a point
Opposite current flow
Upstream view
Things are always particularly interesting when standing directly over a wild river. It takes time to absorb the many contingencies simultaneously converging.
“River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.” – Barten Holyday
Texture aggregation
Cohesive expression
Overarching physicality
Exploring the flora diversity and environmental geology of southeastern Idaho, the shadowself occasionally becomes part of the mix as an indexical external presence. Natural ecosystem manifestations are dependent on many unique geographic and climatic provision factors.
“When systems are integrated, productivity rises.” – Steve Malott
Physical presence
Affinity distinction
Enduring relationship
The shadowself appears at opportune moments to reinforce the fact of material existence. Life proceeds as a function of being, referenced directly and indirectly to an ability to interact with physical and mental realities.
“To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand.” – Charles Taylor
Integrating into
Habitat randomness
Emanation immersion
Environmental concerns are fully considered in the decisions and activities of the shadowself. You are always located in some relative position offering philosophical potential, even at the convenience store purchasing costly gasoline.
“Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)” – Horace