Time

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

Turn silver gray
Standing in weather
Seasons affirmed

A familiar venerable agricultural structure near the roadway always attracts attention on any trip north. Such residual artifacts persist as temporal evidence to help synchronize evolving cultures.

“Inside a barn is a whole universe, with its own time zone and climate and ecosystem, a shadowy world of swirling dust illuminated in tiger stripes by light shining through the cracks between the boards.” – Carolyn Jourdan

Details pass by
Complete experience
Vibrant revealing

The external human sense organs deliver an enormous deluge of turbulent information to the mind. Reduced down to a manageable distillate for the objective of survival, cognition simplifies these chaotic signals into recognizable patterns. Rationality dominates the utilitarian tendency during customary perception, relentlessly confining potential interpretation.

“We are all of us doomed to spend the rest of our lives watching a movie of our lives – we are always acting on what has just finished happening.” – Tom Wolfe

Atmospheric conditions
Longevity expectancy
Aging gracefully

An isolated rustic structure found in the middle of an abandoned field provides an interesting study of texture, pattern, and continuance.

“Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.” – William Butler Yeats

Accumulated wear
Comfortably worn
Concentric prominence

An act of the mind takes inextensive vibrations and locates them in juxtaposition. Part of the associated perception involves individual history, always part of the present moment as objects in space are distinguished within a combination of simultaneous sensations.

“It would appear that aging is a common but optional part of the life plan.” – Josh Mitteldorf