Landscape

Scalar structures
Degree of spatiality
Irreducible experience

The beach offers opportunity for quiet contemplation.

“Nothing is left for our philosophy but to set out to prospect the actual world.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Quarry pond
Depth of field
Experimentation

An abandoned granite quarry on Belle Isle is now a 19-foot-deep reflecting pond.

“When these workers inadvertently opened a crack in the stone leading to the river, the quarry began to fill with water faster than it could be pumped out.”– Ben Swenson

Early spring
Natural variation
Ephemerals emerge

The meadow flora reacts to warmer weather and increased daylight.

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

In the evening
Day is done
Make no rules

Water is all around on the sound side of the Outer Banks as the sun drops in the west.

“We were flying close to heaven, everything was starting to glow. Drivin’ into sunset, rollin’ ’cause we had to roll.” – Tom Petty

Cold and windy
Terrain diverse
Irregular elevations

The expansive Outer Banks beaches feel wilder in the winter.

“One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.” – Iris Murdoch

Wide expanse
Nearing night
Grasses wave sway

Every trip to Whalehead offers sensual rewards.

“I have an immoderate passion for water; for the sea, though so vast, so restless, so beyond one’s comprehension; for rivers, beautiful, yet fugitive and elusive; but especially for marshes, teeming with all that mysterious life of the creatures that haunt them.”– Guy de Maupassant

Clarified form
Critical reflection
Absolute indubitability

The continuous visual experience advances steadily when the sun falls just below the horizon.

“The whole concrete surrounding life-world is for me, from now on, only a phenomenon of being, instead of something that is.”– Edmund Husserl

Wetland ecosystem
Herbaceous plants
Predominate

A low elevation coastal plain estuary is a highly dynamic biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

“The marsh did not confine them but defined them and, like any sacred ground, kept their secrets deep.” – Delia Owens

Upland region
Coastal plain
River crossing

An area of rocky shallow fast moving river water.

“A river seems like a magic thing. Magic, moving, living part of the earth itself.” – Laura Gilpin

Going down slow
Time passage
Able to see

Some creative venues are consistently reliable within a circumambient opportunity.

“And the evening sings in a voice of amber, and the sky is softly humming.” -Al Stewart