Passing today
White noise
All the way
Recycling the periodic rhythm, while in it for the long haul, seasons come and go with regularity.
“Feelings of anticipation bring back that childhood sense of Time; its incomprehensible linearity, how unreal there seems from here, in either direction.” – Neil Peart
Supercooling
Contact freeze
Glaze Event
On the shore of the Chesapeake Bay, a temporary crystal wonderland accompanies an overnight ice storm. Sudden landscape transformations are consistently intriguing.
“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.” – Marcel Proust
Moving change
Everywhere present
Winding through landscapes
Coursing its way through space and time, as a matter of abstract practicality, a river and a life share some existential features. Peaks and valleys manifest along the way on a journey to eventual oceanic disappearance.
“Learn from a river; obstacles may force it to change its course, but never its destination.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
Grey context
Color aggregation
Substance environment
An overcast day in the late fall of 1976 aesthetically translates. By scanning subtle color saturation captured on slide film, an explicit collaboration with a much younger version of myself transpires.
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” – Franz Kafka
Vapor dominated
Close proximity
Buoyant heat
Indicating that molten rock lies just beneath the surface, Yellowstone’s dynamic hydrothermal activity is most impressive in the winter.
“Yellowstone’s thermal areas are the surface expression of the deeper magmatic system, and they are always changing, They heat up, they cool down, and they can move around.” – R. Greg Vaughan
Certain impressions
Constant conjunction
Across many instances
Under certain identifiable conditions, natural mechanisms structure accidental concomitance. The objective basis of conceptual necessity attributions reside in the working of such apparent mechanisms.
“So it is with the life of souls in a world: fixed laws, consequences unfolding by causal necessity, the whole natural order, are at once limits within which their common life is confined and also the sole condition under which any such life is possible.” – C.S. Lewis
Biological production
Dominated by grasses
Significant degree
Not easily navigated on foot, an area of low-lying land on the York River is periodically flooded and typically remains waterlogged. Being near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, this marsh is brackish and experiences tidal fluctuations.
“A marsh is a whole world within a world, a different world, with a life of its own, with its own permanent denizens, its passing visitors, its voices, its sounds, its own strange mystery.” – Guy de Maupassant
Internally consistent
Occasion appropriate
Inherent naturalness
Composites of multiple elements interact with potential transformative affects. Certain patterns reappear across a range of dimensional temperature gradients, stimulating an aesthetic psychological frame expressed in quantity of experience.
“Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
New time period
Feeling of power
For the morning
Across an infinite time and cosmos, natural cyclic change offers the hope of eternal revitalization. In a perpetual sequence of novel phases, built on an ever expanding past, the only constant is the process.
“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.” – Henry David Thoreau
Naturally gravitate
Calming effects
Feel at one
Walking on the shoreline offers contemplative time for thinking, focusing and connecting. The the ocean experience actually changes brain wave frequencies and induces a mild meditative state.
“The physical sensation of putting your feet in warm sand causes people to relax.” – Richard Shuster