Physical items
Reiterate limits
Evidence dreaming
Vibrating at the edges of imagination, certain emplacements on the drive north speak of earlier times. A magnitude of circumstances effect each passing occurrence, contributing to the aesthetic ambience.
“It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.” – Gaston Bachelard
Resistant to disclosure
Expressively moving
Reverberating beyond
Things come and go expeditiously, supporting incremental change. Right now everything leads to the perfect moment of unfolding.
“You can’t stop the future, you can’t rewind the past, the only way to learn the secret……is to press play.” – Jay Asher
Uniquely together
Infinitely apart
Outside itself
Along the way, certain emplacements differentiate as compelling ensembles, stimulating thoughts stretching beyond the present. Aspects of the world exist outside of their expression.
“Metaphysical intuition is an entirely different thing from the summary or synthesis of knowledge.” – Henri Bergson
Emotional accord
Authentic source
Spontaneous overflow
Rain smooths the edges of experience as senses are flooded with fresh impressions.
“The carnival traffic noise it sings the tune splashing up and even the ducks can groove rain bathing in the park side pool.” – Jimi Hendrix
Freedom fascination
Recourse to nothing
Outside itself
Shifting phantasms are thrown on the far side of the shopping arcade, as headlights move across the expanse. Discursive geographies of transition are part of a dialectic of space in a broader interrogation of linear progression.
“Only if the image is beyond not only the reality which it negates but also the imaginative consciousness which intends it can one account for the fact that one is free and fascinated at the same time — that is, aware that the image is not real while behaving as if it were.” – Richard Kearney
Built in 1936
Uptown Theatre
Closed for 42 years
Heed the past. There appears to be enough left for a renovation project.
“I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see – you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.” – Bob Balaban
Deeply compelling
Object decay abstract
Vanish into obsolescence
Visual poetry is found in a deserted alley, with an emphasis on the complexities of temporal decrepitude.
“And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.” – William Shakespeare
High promontory
Infinite volcanic variety
Precipitated into a gorge
Engendering powerful observational sensation, grandeur magnitude exceeding all possible measurement, prognosis, or imitation defines the sublime. The enormity of some visual phenomena is so stunning that complete comprehension is inextricable.
“The walls of the cañon are of gypsum, in some places having an incrustation of lime white as snow, from which the reflected rays of the sun produce a dazzling effect, rendering it painful to look into the gulf.” – Gustavus C. Doane
Last stand
Swift water rocky site
Below the dam
A remnant of an earlier settlement incarnation, this old power house persists. Just upstream from the dam, what is left of the old town site of American Falls is under the reservoir water most of the time. Starting in 1925, the Bureau of Reclamation moved the entire municipality to make way for a large dam. The project involved relocating approximately 350 residents and their houses, many businesses, schools, churches, roads, and associated infrastructure to higher ground.
“A dam is monumentally static; it tries to bring a river under control, to regulate its seasonal pattern of floods and low flow.” – Patrick McCully
Agricultural heritage
Rural area landmark
Stand the test of time
Seen from the highway, attractive farm architecture from another era punctuates the countryside. As affected, influenced, or shaped by human involvement, cultural landscapes focus on terrain and resource utilization.
“It’s difficult to pinpoint what it is about old buildings — barns in particular — that make them so fascinating to see, experience, and photograph.” – Jennifer Brooks