Enigmatic landscape
Barrier backside
Coastal dune
The nuances of place emerge over an extended time exposure, as the experience of what is becomes apparent.
“There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.” – Josephine Hart
Hotter than the sun
Electrostatic discharge
Water conductor
Exhilaratingly magnificent, one of the most interesting sights on the beach are thunderstorms out over the sea.
“Thunder roars but does not strike. Lightning strikes but does not roar. Choose to be lightning.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
Material principals
Permanent transformation
Freedom of the sea
A one hundred and eight degree view of the Atlantic.
“Despite the many dangers associated with it, the obvious “otherness” of the ocean has not stopped humans from being curious about it.” – Kira Gee
Ecological conception
Aesthetic experience
Capacity to humanize
Deep in the forest, aesthetic comfort transpires. The natural roots of inspiration are substantial and ancient.
“In the creation and reception of art the embodied subject is fully at home with his or her environment.” – Paul Crowther
Time whirl
Vertical thrust
Slants of light
Some venues are surprisingly rich in aesthetic potential, offering tremendous diversity in visual expression.
“The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time.” – Annie Dillard
Perfect adaptation
Niche authenticity
Place knowledge
The sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix is more meaningful when natural.
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.” – Henry David Thoreau
Spatial matrix
Successive segments
Extensive continuum
Over time the forest reaches equilibrium.
“The continuum only exists in the spatio-temporal gaps between actual occasions, but it is what unifies the occasions in one common world.” – Luciana Parisi
Various parts
Aspects linked
Coordinated
Awake and lightly treading along the path, spiritualism always follows physicality. Bundles of energy constantly sustain the life force.
“But is it possible to conceive the nervous system as living apart from the organism which nourishes it, from the atmosphere in which the organism breathes, from the earth which that atmosphere envelopes, from the sun round which the earth revolves?” – Henri Bergson
Emphasize significance
Embodied experience
Rather abstract
Repeated walks across the same geography develops deeper understanding. A natural, wild and varied landscape is sincere even if enclosed and bounded by civilization.
“I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.” – G.M. Trevelyan
Material fixations
Spiritual raiment
Movement action
Traveling through the undergrowth, beauty becomes an exercise in selective particularization. The extraordinary is often found in the ordinary.
“And to the variety due to climate there is added that caused by the topographical features of the different regions. Again, the vegetation is profoundly varied by the peculiar distribution of the soil and moisture.” – John Muir