Absolute plumbing
Flushing competition
Turd surfer
Michel Henry, a French philosopher known for his phenomenological approach, would likely find much to ponder in the image of the Absolute Plumbing truck. Henry’s philosophy, focused on the lived body and the affective dimension of experience, aligns with the visceral and humorous impact this image exhibits.
“The body is not just a physical object, but also a site of affective experience.” – Erwin Straus
WelinLambie
Vent B-2 Void
Keep out
A portion of the vessel needs protection.
“She doesn’t understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings – they’re helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.” – Sonya Hartnett
Square jaw
Unfolding continuity
Artfully converge
His truly two-dimensional cartoon construction is perpetually revealed by flying bullet ventilation.
“Fearless is without doubt the world’s most idiotic detective. He shoots people for their own good, is pure beyond imagining, and is fanatically loyal to a police department which exploits, starves and periodically fires him.” – Al Capp
Curious juxtaposition
Organic artificial
Aesthetic artifacts
A sense of wildness is framed within a cultural context.
“The aesthetic experience is a consummatory experience. It is a fulfillment and completion of the act of perception. It is the final stage of a process that begins with the perception of something as a stimulus and ends with the perception of that thing as a work of art.” – John Dewey
Thoroughfares
Should last
Forevermore
An unlikely slogan that could function to express or encourage particular beliefs or actions.
“No permanence is ours; we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.” – Hermann Hesse
Energy you trade
Gets right on by
Friction of the day
A reminder that our preferences can change and evolve over time.
“I’m learning all the time. I’m evolving all the time as a human being. I’m getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.” – Neil Peart
Ritualistic
Symbol cycle
Deity depiction
An andromorph is an organism with male physical characteristics.
“Be noble like the sun; let even those who resent you for shinning benefit from your warmth.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
Nietzschean perspectivism
Fragmented and overlapping
Reflectivity
By presenting no single,coherent message, the image reflects a multitude of possible interpretations.
“The eternal recurrence is the most affirmative thought.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Rigid objectivity
Perfect representation
Fleeting details
Reality is not a static, objective entity, but rather a dynamic interplay of light, color, and atmosphere, constantly shifting with our perception.
“The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.” – Walter Benjamin
Universal values
Sense of belonging
Collective action
A legitimate government derives from the consent of the governed.
“Given a multitude of rational beings requiring universal laws for their preservation, but each of whom is secretly inclined to exempt himself from them, to establish a constitution in such a way that, although their private intentions conflict, they check each other, with the result that their public conduct is the same as if they had no such intentions.” – Immanuel Kant