Deep focus
Hexagonal openings
Reverse twist mesh
A roll of lightweight metal fence material designed to keep domestic chickens or peacocks in designated aviary areas is discarded.
“Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world – people who will cause trouble if the government doesn’t restrain them.” – Harry Browne
Object materiality
Warm glow
Slow decay
A close-up of a metal structure with multiple planes of focus.
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
Passive reception
External stimuli
Core tenets
The delicate dance of perception requires us to be constantly aware of our own role in shaping experience.
“The world of appearances is not the world of realities.” – Edwin Abbott
Surface reflections
Optical space
Reverberating
Foreground background relationships resonate.
“Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite.” – Arshile Gorky
Still life
Before a window
Vibrant pulsation
The primacy of lived experience is the foundation of all knowledge.
“Art lives in the intuition, not in the concept.” – Benedetto Croce
Pale shadow
Sensible objects
Intelligible world
As the colors that we see in the world around us are sensible, we are able to participate in the intelligible world.
“The soul is a part of the intelligible world that has become trapped in the sensible world.” – Plato
Striated forms
Smooth becomings
Complex tableau
The metal stand striates the smooth glass plate, carving out a territory and marking it as distinct from the rest of the world.
“The smooth has no form, or rather, it is the form of the formless, the line of flight that tears across forms and territories.” – Gilles Deleuze
Occupied by two
Unlikely companions
Teddy bear and duck
The windshield of a car is a transparent barrier between the sheltered interiority of the vehicle and the open expanse of the road ahead.
“It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.” – Gaston Bachelard
Importance of experience
Directly given
Without assumptions
An invitation to a shared space.
“There is no such thing as space in itself, but only spaces.” ― Henri Bergson
Across bridge
Autumn forest
Experience texture
The bridge itself is a liminal space between two realms, the point at which the real and the aesthetic intersect.
“Art does not imitate reality; it expresses it.” ― Benedetto Croce