Beach Nexus
Ocean waves
Churn of foam
Wet sand
Moving beyond the notion of a static world.
“There is no becoming which is not a becoming of something, and this something is the nexus, the actual entity.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Enclosed Erlebnis
Toy robot
Encased in
Transparent plastic
The mint robot can be understood as an actual entity existing within a complex of experiences.
“The actual world is a process of becoming, and… these becomings are not independent of one another. They require each other’s natures for the determination of their own natures.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Illumination Essence
Intimate confines
Placeholder for a body
Absent but implied
Consciousness shapes our experience of the world.
“To the phenomenological attitude, the world is not a collection of things, but a field of phenomena.” – Edmund Husserl
Floral Display
Inert depictions
Negative space
Experience elements
The specific qualities we perceive are all constituted by our consciousness.
“Negative space is magical – create it, don’t just fill it up!” – Timothy Samara
Event of a Parked Car
City matrix
Static substances
Dynamic processes
Here we approach organized complexity as an event in the process of becoming.
“The final realites of the world are not hard, irreducible, stubborn facts, but are events, happenings, occurrences. The entire character of actuality is to be described by these.” – Alfred North Whitehead
In Relief
So as
To stand out
From the surface
Low-angle acute side-light allows shadows t0 play an integral role.
“I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It’s closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea.” – Mary Ellen Mark
Plate Hangers
Functional
Object
Transforms
Husserl, the father of phenomenology, emphasized the importance of bracketing out assumptions and returning to the essence of an object or experience through intentional consciousness.
“The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and adding his own contribution to the creative act.” – Marcel Duchamp
Segmentation
Points on a line
Clear partition
Slice of space
A continuous flow of experience constitutes consciousness.
“The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.” – Gottfried Leibniz
Into the Unease
Creepy doll
Seems to possess
Disquieting sentience
The vacant eyes, devoid of true sight, hold a gaze that seems to pierce through time.
“Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.” – George Berkeley
Royal Pearls
Patiently waiting
Round the neck
Lovely luster
Detail defined as garb accoutrements enhance appearances.
“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” – Federico Fellini