Monthly Archives: June 2018

Poor Boy Lloyd’s

Authentic New Orleans
Seafood restaurant
Open reflection

Abundantly supplied with visual resources, a street window compresses extended space into a rich planar presentation of simultaneous information.

“That was always my experience—a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy’s school; a poor boy in a rich man’s club at Princeton …. However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works. “ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Down the Corridor

Distinct departure
Strange occurrence
Into the unknown

Appearance phenomena are disclosures of the invisible world as the manifestations of spirit. Simple acts can sometimes become mysterious and inexplicitly enigmatic.

“Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.” – Virginia Woolf

Another Lamppost

Combined experience
Interesting angles
Metropolitan detail

The city is full of angular juxtapositions, each with their own curiosity. And curiosity migrates on a protracted walkabout.

“You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.” – Italo Calvino

Graceful Efflorescence

Pleasing form
Attractive proportion
Flower production

Backyard Cherry blossom.

“I must have flowers, always, and always” – Claude Monet

Gradual Elaboration

Categorical scheme
Definitely stated
Progress stage

The passage of time is inscribed in the details of a viscerous building edifice. There are aspects of actualities which both restrict thought and stimulate imagination.

“The accurate expression of the final generalities is the goal of discussion and not its origin.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Lobby Space Out

Entrance hall
Corridors lead
More other rooms

Looking in from the outside, an austere vestibule presents an immaculate geometrical introduction.

“There’s no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby.” – Anne Rice

Redbud Seed Pod

Understory tree
Delicate lavender
Succession progression

The seasonal blooming of the Redbud tree is a harbinger of good things to come.

“ Deep in the forests in spring, when the redbird makes her first call, she sees only the green of the cedar and the Redbud through brown leaves of fall.” – Maimee Lee Robinson Browne

Illuminator

Narrowly focused
Light source
Indication

The sunlight lines-up and animates the otherwise ordinary.

“Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Chute

Conveying things
Leaning over the
Portals of consciousness

The late afternoon sunlight highlights an architectural detail in the city. To us, things are what they are as they are perceived, not as they are in themselves.

“Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.” – Henri Bergson

Purple Haze

All in my eyes
Spark in the eve
Sustain itself

Colored lights and reflections adorn an intimate urban edifice.

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” – Bob Dylan

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