Towering vertical
Equilibrium level
Frontal squall line
While driving through rural Louisiana in the late aftrernoon, green clouds on the horizon appear ominous. For the visual artist, thunderstorms are as seductive as clear sunshine.
“There is peace even in the storm.” – Vincent van Gogh
Water conveyance
Synthetic reservoir
Seasonal variations
A desirable river resource can be augmented by building a series of small extensions into the surrounding embankments.
“Stay focused and channel your little efforts through a common canal and you will marvel at the amount of pressure you create in that canal.” – Israelmore Ayivor
Condensation expansion
Preferential scattering
Systematically returned
A storm transition on Lopez Island magically lights up the backyard. When there is complete appreciation, any particular item belongs to what is already apparent. For the finite individual there is great joy in the experience of freshness.
“From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.” – Tony Hillerman
Actual intricacies
Peculiar perplexities
Frame an account
Thinking in terms of time and space forming qualitative differences in conscious states, here atmospheric contingencies blend with surface elements to present an unusual visual presentation to the passing traveler.
“It is another property of the human mind that whenever men can form no idea of distant and unknown things, they judge them by what is familiar and at hand.” – Giambattista Vico
Complete interpenetration
Mutual informing
Real and ideal
Aesthetic idealism and beauty is at the centre of Schelling’s philosophical inquiry. His interrogation functions as an organic view of nature that depends on creative intuition. As such, the conditions of possibility are interrelated by means of unity.
“The forms of art must be the forms of things as they are within the absolute or in themselves.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Obscure hiding
Didactic exposition
Time in consciousness
Passing by scenery offered systematically and in detail, such appearances are sometimes distinctively significant. The primordial element is light in its most illuminating exposition, unequivocally presented in its temporal movement.
“Every appearance is, as representation in the mind, under the form of inner sense, which is time. Every representation is so constituted that the mind goes through it in time; that is, the mind expounds the appearance; thus every appearance is expoundable.” – Immanuel Kant
External determination
Sensible manifold
Relation function
Natural volition is necessarily framed by accumulated contingencies. Dormant brown fields await the warmth of spring to vault into action. A materialistic and fatalistic view must be offset by an idealistic view of vivacious province.
“We felt it now to be in our power to make indefinite progress in this new inventory of the world.” – William T. Harris
Convey the experience
Inscription proceeds
Spectacle realm
An evening on the shore brings forth the quality of changeableness.
“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.” – Paul Klee