Dune field
Ascending interval
Equilibrium height
An extensive, asymmetrical, fluctuating hill lacking vegetation, Jockey’s Ridge is the largest active sand dune in the eastern United States. The desert-like conditions can be quite severe.
“The winds blow from the northeast during the winter and from the southwest during the summer, so the sand is constantly blown back and forth, preventing it from blowing away entirely.” – Robin Hallac
Time passes
As it happens
Transfiguration
Sand drift variation emphasizes that somethings change rapidly. Associated unpredictably makes planning difficult even when accounting for instability. The way things are is not the way things will be.
“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.” – Stephen King
Secluded beach
Gentle currents
Saltwater lagoon
Many miles of open water stretch between the Outer Banks barrier islands and the mainland, causing the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano on his 1524 voyage to mistake the Sound for the Pacific Ocean.
“A soundside experience differs from the ocean in wave action, water depths and currents.” – Molly Harrison
All the swells
Uniquely identified
Summer brilliance
The essential nature of sand indicates the dynamic nature of change. Present moments are single stationary frames of a continuous shift from one state to another another. Transformation defines existence.
“Sand not only flows, but this very flow is the sand.” – Kobo Abe
Maritime forest
Integrated native
Plant landscape
The Outer Banks shoreline estuary forest community supports a great diversity of native vegetation that is salt, sand and wind tolerant. Just like the dynamic barrier island itself, maritime forests are constantly on the move and evolving.
“But there is another side to this strip of sand, another world of beauty and wonder waiting for the slightly adventurous.” – Danielle Fenyak
Idaho winter
Across the valley
Suspended animation
There is something emotionally compelling felt during periods of temporary metabolic inactivity.
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
Space interval
Continuity divergence
Surface cleft
Thermal punctuation is here situated on the edge of a hot spring pool, as extreme conditions steam in the sunshine on a winter morning. An artistic aesthetic response depends on how deeply guidance is gained through experience.
“Somber Yellowstone Park and its colored hot springs, baby geysers, rainbows of bubbling mud – symbols of my passion.” – Vladimir Nabokov
Angular distance
Diffuse illumination
Chronological possibilities
As a delicate veil of indistinct haze elevates, states of being in the present are manifest as existential evens that cut across time polarities.
“Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.” – John Ruskin
Continual energy
Capacity for renewal
Trust the current
With constant synchronicity, wild rivers dance to their own melody, punctuating the harmony of existence. Some earthly phenomena remain eternally fascinating.
“The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us.” – John Muir
Precipitous rhyolite cliffs
Impressive cascade
Warm geothermal river
A exhilarating winter overlook into the scenic river of Firehole canyon inspires admiration at sunrise.
“Following down the river bank through a deep cañon of volcanic rocks, in many places broken in huge fragments, we presently came to rapids, having a fall of perhaps 40 feet in a half mile.” – Gustavus C. Doane