Dwell On
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
Holding On
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
Temporal Proximity
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
Actual Distance
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
Ticket Exchange
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
Transient Utterance
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
Yellowstone Grand Canyon
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