Landscape

Chisel run pond
Snowy Egret
Flyover

A special place of repeated visit.

“Earth has no sorrow that earth cannot heal.” – John Muir

Catch the mist
Time has come
Ramble on

Some landscapes seem otherworldly.

“Mine’s a tale that can’t be told, my freedom I hold dear; How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air.” – Robert Plant

Critical observation
Translation form
Spatialization

A very old and monumental tree has room to spread out.

“The self-movement of the work is, rather, genuinely part of its being, and this movement is manifested in its rhythm.” – Mikel Dufrenne

Rooted in experience
Perceptual knowledge
Merely an inquiry

A long hike is rewarded with a sudden appearance of forest beauty.

“Our theme is the coherence of the known, and the perplexity which we are unravelling is as to what it is that is known.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Resolvable elements
Drawn consequences
Mutually dependent

A tributary runs through low-level marsh land on its way to the sea.

“Experience pure and simple shows us the interdependence of the mental and the physical, the necessity of a certain cerebral substratum for the psychical state—nothing more.” – Henri Bergson

Element mechanism
Externalized by relation
Necessary determination

The sound side of the Outer Banks offers its own tension.

“Meaning is always only an opinion in the sense that it always stands in need of evidence that can never be given definitively.” – Edmund Husserl

Precisely formed
Relations contained
Superposed intensities

Late in the winter the beach takes on an emotionally wild and natural appearance.

“From the point of view of magnitude, what can there be in common between the extensive and the intensive, the extended and the unextended?” – Henri Bergson

Combined instinct
Contingent expression
Decisive influence

Actual experience derives from the conditions of all possible experience.

“We apply the term subjective to what seems to be completely and adequately known, and the term objective to what is known in such a way that a constantly increasing number of new impressions could be substituted for the idea which we actually have of it.”” – Henri Bergson

Structured series
Sensation apprehension
Phenomena modifications

Late in the day, the final sun-rays glance across the dune tops.

“To every definite spatial form corresponds a definite syntax; and to every perspective of one’s gaze belongs a system of complicated possibilities.” — Edmund Husserl

Radically genuine
Provisional dream
Seductive aberrations

An early morning walk after a night of light snow uncovers phenomenal relationships.

“Evidence is, in an extremely broad sense, an “experiencing” of something that is, and is thus; it is precisely a mental seeing of something itself.” – Edmund Husserl