Energy discourse
Panel illumination
Assertion focus
Certain experiences exist only in synthetically created environments through which large numbers of travelers pass.
“The law of attraction is the belief that the universe creates and provides for you that which your thoughts are focused on.” – Neil Farber
Terminal shuttling
Between concourses
Waiting room on wheels
An innovative modernistic feature of Washington Dulles airport, the mobile lounge was once state-of-the-art. In due course, the future inexorably becomes antiquated.
“The dune buggy-like buses were originally considered an elegant, futuristic solution for all the walking necessitated by increasingly large airports.” – Rachel Sadon
Inclusive structure
Irreducibly personal
Metaphysical legitimacy
With knowledge of the simulation field comes aesthetic potential. In an elevated arousal level associated with acute awareness, the flux of time seems to slow down in the continuity of perceptible refinement.
“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.” – Soren Kierkegaard
Long distance trek
Walk here and there
Catch planes departing
The airport terminal encounter is usually a rush of focused movement in a crowd of human animation. Current sensory experience is obsequiously eschewed as passengers are fixated on being somewhere else.
“We wander in the ambient noise, checking one more time for the flight coupon, the boarding pass, the visa.” – Don DeLillo
Subjective tone
Organic level
Physical response
Experiencing duration as continuity offers a veritable glimpse into the essential nature of reality, although always conditioned by limited understanding. Thus for a moment we may grasp the beginning of a truth which exists beyond permanent hold.
“We do know in a mode different from mere physical response, and we must call the ultimate fact of knowing by some unambiguous name.” – K.W. Wild
Schemata centered
Temporal pulsation
Isolation con detachment
The airport terminal is in a continuous state of dynamic action.
“The transference is the enactment of the reality of the unconscious.” – Jacques Lacan
Connotation of illusion
Attributed to the phenomenon
Of the transference
Things are in constant motion in the terminal. As meaning is questioned in a metaphysical puzzle, a point of connection is a juncture of opportunity.
“It is clear that this relation is established on a plane that is not reciprocal, not symmetrical.” – Jacques Lacan