Environmental control
Empirical evidence
Enhanced survival
In the Kansas City Power and Light district, a large-scale historical electricity tribute is offered. Just about any past human endeavor can be glorified to support specific current ambitions.
“In our minds we can de-couple cognition from time, place, and circumstance.” – J. Anderson Thomson
Details pass by
Complete experience
Vibrant revealing
The external human sense organs deliver an enormous deluge of turbulent information to the mind. Reduced down to a manageable distillate for the objective of survival, cognition simplifies these chaotic signals into recognizable patterns. Rationality dominates the utilitarian tendency during customary perception, relentlessly confining potential interpretation.
“We are all of us doomed to spend the rest of our lives watching a movie of our lives – we are always acting on what has just finished happening.” – Tom Wolfe
Moment integrity
Solidify feelings
Fully present
Focusing on the concrete and specific can to lead to useful abstract generalizations, appealing in the comforting desire for an underlaying possibility of universal truth.
“ If we look around and pay attention there is plenty that we can find to be grateful for. Noticing the richness that we have in our lives is nourishing and will help us to feel stronger and more able to cope.” – Karen Armstrong
Airborne spectrum
Positional relevance
Approximation uncertainty
As an example of technology overcoming the limits of innate human functionality, the orientation view from an operational aircraft is always philosophically interesting. Relative to the infinite enormity of the universe, the habitable conditions favorable to life are diminutive.
“ Even a person who claims that considering philosophic questions is a waste of time is expressing what is significant, worthwhile or valuable to philosophy. A rejection of all philosophy is in itself philosophy.” – Bonachristus Umeogu
Mystical grace
Potential manifold
Enduring indivisibly
Invoking the irreducible value of being, nature provides a psychological experience of apprehending on a deeper level than that of consciousness.
“Beauty is a form of Genius–is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty.” – Oscar Wilde
Immediately apparent
Transient emanations
Corner disposition
Ambulating through the municipality in a state of aesthetic awareness, sensory inputs infiltrate consciousness from the further reaches of the spatial/temporal frontier as ephemeral yet ordinary event occurrences.
“There is always more available than can be extracted from the flash of each temporal moment — remaining unnoticed unless some adaptive mode in the posture of looking is brought to bear.” – Lynn Margaret Imperatore
Residual indirect stage
Relative diffusibility
Colorful spectacle
While immersed in the swirling energy streams of mixed radiation, an absorbing and atmospheric stroll through the old part of town leads into the heart of darkness.
“It’s not an hour at all, just a few seconds of blue light between dusk and night, when everything is both clearest and most obscure — a light that challenges perception, revealing and hiding.” – John Rechy
Space boundaries
Naturally flowing
Harmonic balance
Life is organic in structural physicality, while simultaneously featuring logical organizational elements as patterned spatial attributes. By way of discontinuities in intensity values, angles and edges define object boundary identification.
“Two galaxies on one longitude: converge penetrate interweave consolidate.” – Anastasia Savinova
Long and low
Snazzy roadster
Indomitable spirit
In native American cultures, different versions of the Thunderbird are patterned after a mythical Eagle which commands the sky and its demeanor. Specific symbolic meaning differs in accordance with tribal affiliation and regional attributes, generally involving spiritual concepts of truth, powerful energy, and destiny. With an emphasis on image over practicality, Ford attempted to transfer theses associations into a highly styled, mass produced, sporty luxury vehicle.
“To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence.” – N. Scott Momaday
Possible passages
Temporal proposition
Decision juncture
High-speed movement through space and time demands rapid external environmental apprehension and resolution. Appropriate action is executed without time for contemplative cognition, but rather on spontaneous impulse. This process involves receptivity and acceptance of information without judging on its validity, often lacking complete comprehension. Although seemingly unpremeditated, any such response is conditioned by all prior training and experience.
“I have often experienced in a sudden intuition the reality of my being, the profound first principle which makes me exist outside nonentity.” – Jacques Maritain