Master
Clarinet
Bassoon
Master
Up close and personal with an accordion.
“I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.” – Lawrence Welk
Ding Dongs
Wooden statue
Bear presiding
Over a shelf
Our experience of the world is the primary reality; independent of a perceiving mind, objects hold no inherent existence.
“For absolute existence of unthinking things without any relation to their being perceived, that is to say, without the mind of any spirit, involves a manifest contradiction.” – George Berkeley
Object Removed
Differential
Concrete stain
Aging
In this encounter, the object transcends its physical characteristics and becomes a lived experience.
“An event is the outcome of the past, so far as the past is relevant to the present. It is also the pregnant mother of the future” – Alfred North Whitehead
Juggle Affairs
Reciprocal influences
Ambivalent tone
Nascent interest
A study in handle ergonomics evoke the bells of rhymney.
“Is there hope for the future? Say the brown bells of Merthyr.” – Idris Davies
Relative Mass
Measure determine
Substance heaviness
Downward force
The power of relationships help to form the operative environment.
“The scale can only give you a numerical reflection of your relationship with gravity.” – Steve Maraboli
Craft Paper Window
Bailey’s
Lunch
Breakfast
The tangible and the familiar are the ground on which experience derives.
“The traces left behind by the things of the past… are like fallen leaves, which the wind of history carries with it.” – Walter Benjamin
Imperfection Harmony
Broken blind
Seemingly mundane
Window treatment
We do not inherently perceive the material world itself, but rather, our minds interpret sensory data to construct a world of experience.
“And in short, there is nothing which I cannot conceive as existing independent of my own mind, in some part of infinite space, without any relation to me.” – George Berkeley
Curious Interplay
Sign reflection
Interior shop
Exterior world
The static shop sign and the dynamic reflection create a dialectical sway.
“The street is a stage for the everyday.” – Walter Benjamin
Silex – Handy Breeze
Form experience
Object transcends
Present representation
Disparate elements appear as a collection of phenomena, particulars of experience awaiting interpretation.
“Art… is expression for expression’s sake.” – Benedetto Croce
Planes of Reference
Inclination longitude
Imaginary quantities
Coordinate axis
Working on art museum display electromagnetic radiation interactions
“We don’t all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination.” – Janelle Monae