Time

Concrete patina
Highway bottom
Abstractedness

There is much to see and explore on Belle Isle, especially as it relates to the passage of time.

“Time erodes us all. — Meg Rosoff

Rental beach house
Yard pool
Amenity

Such dilapidation tends to reduce the price of admission.

“If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.” – W. Edwards Deming

Inside fortifications
Decommissioned
Stone fort

Casemates were constructed as gun positions but also used to house soldiers, store weapons and ammunition, and hold prisoners.

“After the War of 1812, the United States made its first substantial commitment to national defense, including a system of forts along its coast. Work began on Fort Monroe in 1819, using massive stone walls to form seven connected points or bastions.” – Lara Lutz

Arch fabric
Heritage rewritten
Selective history

For two years after the civil war, Jefferson Davis was held as a military prisoner confined to a small room known as a casemate at Fort Monroe near Norfolk. He was never tried.

“The Fort Monroe Authority on Friday removed the letters that spelled “Jefferson Davis Memorial Park” from an iron archway that honored the one-time Confederate president imprisoned at the former Army post.” – Lisa Vernon Sparks

Semi-diurnal
Celestial motions
Estuary oscillation

A small area on the lower James River features a unique micro environment due to cyclic water movement at the land mass boundary.

“Migrating nodes of the partially standing tidal wave hint at increasing latent resonance.” – Sebastian S. V. Hein

Cognitive intention
Representation through
Expression thought

An estuary presents an interesting enclosed transition zone between a river environment and a maritime environment.

“A thought limited to existing for itself, independently of the constraints of speech and communication, would no sooner appear than it would sink into the unconscious, which means that it would not exist even for itself.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Gradual decline
Breakdown apoptosis
Surface indication

Natural processes affect all physical materials throughout variations of apparent perspective.

“To analyse time is not to follow out the consequences of a pre-established conception of subjectivity, it is to gain access, through time, to its concrete structure.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Active qualities
Inhabited meaning
Function spectacle

Urban space is at a premium when a removed building becomes a parking lot.

“Sense experience is that vital communication with the world which makes it present as a familiar setting of our life.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Imbued belief
Single complete
Embracing whole

Chemical erosion indicates time passage.

“The universe can only be a system of laws if phenomena have passed beforehand through the filter of an intellect.” – Henri Bergson

Revision conditions
Before metaphysics
Never statically complete

Forces at work create random transcendental corroborations.

“The connection between the experience and the human being having the experience is ‘contingent’.” – Edmund Husserl