Bentley

Unified vision
Brand identity
Tangible expression

Decorative cast iron and brass security identification grates cover the ground level windows of the Bentley Hotel. Accuracy and precision help delineate forms of communication, as in all systematic thought there exists a trace of pedantry.

“A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is–it is what consumers tell each other it is.” – Scott Cook

Direct Physical Presence

Careful examination
Evaluation exercise
Scrutiny station

It is complicated when attempting to understand how a sensible object conveys meaning. Occasionally there are elements resident in a sensuous medium that are curiously capable of standing for something else.

“An event mirrors within itself the modes of its predecessors, as memories which are fused into its own content.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Golden Touch

Linear progress
Intentional object
Heavily influenced

Mythology here localizes on the urban surface, influencing the cultural environment. As such, myth mitigates the crisis of modern alienation by offering resonating chambers harmonically tuned to cause destructive interference.

“History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always accept their destinies willingly.” – Aberjhani

Full Temple

Believe in absurdities
Persistent delusion
Potent force

Religious marginalia found during an urban exploration illustrates basic questions of existence. Mystery is inherent in both the nature of things and the nature of rationality, as explanations consistently exceed the limits of comprehension.

“The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.” – Mark Twain

Bentley Hotel

Mostly symbolic
National register
Preservation import

The question is not whether and how the assemblage of phenomena and the series of causes and effects, which we call the course of nature, has become actual outside us. The question rather relates to how succession becomes manifest for us.

“The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.” – John Locke

Free Smells

Affecting stimuli
Aroma conscience
Volatilized compounds

Many overt messages that quickly pass-by on an urban exploration are value propositions of dubious esteem. Only actions that are freely willed are seen as deserving credit or blame.

“Each day has a color, a smell.” – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Life and Death

Etch history
Final statement
Ephemeral interval

Unending subdivisions of both space and time produce ideas of infinitesimal and infinite processes. Aesthetics embraces a view of the universe that includes some uncertainty and mystery, while investing in time wisely.

“Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.” – Clifford D. Simak

Contemporary History

Continued succession
Of appearances
Bound to time

Artifacts and idealized narratives can become revenue sources based on enticement. Perpetuated through methods of display and diluted interpretation, tourist attractions construct narrow landscapes.

“The finite endures and resists inclusion within any arbitrary totalization.” – Michael Vater

Fit All

Phenomenal level
Domain of the real
Immediate consciousness

For Schelling, primordial knowledge itself is equivalent to intellectual intuition. Such knowledge is identical with its object, as the subject becomes aware of itself. Pure space and time are not perceived in the ordinary consciousness, but are rather grasped through intellectual intuition in the unconsciousness.

“We do not act because we know, but we know because we are destined for action; practical reason is the root of all reason.” – Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Flatland

Enough evidence
Measured empirically
Propounds the view

Out in the middle of the street, age and random crushing forms an aesthetic object full of curiosity.

“Alas, a few years ago, I should have said “my universe”: but now my mind has been opened to higher views of things.” – Edwin A. Abbott

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