Immediate gratification
Expect convenience
Deserve service
To fulfill a relational obligation to sustain certain demands, the ‘common good’ refers to material, cultural and/or institutional facilities available to a community furnishing members desirable services.
“Common sense is not so common.” – Voltaire
Without ornamentation
Pure geometric forms
Plain materials
The built environment is entwined with fascinating observations comprising an impressive amount of creative depth. Often the seemingly most minimal design is full of precise complexity.
“There is a poetic nature to minimalism that is about striking a balance between full and empty.” – Jennie C. Jones
Texture softness
Compulsive layers
Intense sensation
Grey and brown in a revealing intricate interplay seems to speak for something profound in a winter foliage aggregate study.
“Never close your mind to a color. Remember, too, that texture is an important element.” – Anne Fogarty
Hot mud flow
Viscous materials
Sorted by grain size
Thermopile organisms subsist and thrive in radical conditions, such as the extreme heat and acid present in Yellowstone’s various hydrothermal environments. Some thermophiles manufacture sulfuric acid, using hydrogen sulfide as an energy source, which subsequently breaks-down rock into clay minerals.
“The mind becomes clearer, the faculties are more alive, and ideas spring forth more spontaneously.” – Pierre-Jean De Smet
Design support
Reasonable intention
Stress concentration
Architectural details can relate as interacting angles and textures. Articulating an excursion to a reciprocating mental substratum, aesthetics is an alternate realm of experience affording a deeper stratum of cogitation.
“Designing structures is an art and this needs to be transparent, as designs come and go but creativity stays there.” – Tabish Rasool
Moving water
Fascinating vitality
River embrace
Bodies of water, in all their many manifestations, remain places of fascination. Ever-changing and elusive, rivers are essential powerful dynamic cyclic systems that balance and regulate the Earth and its atmosphere.
“Learn from a river; obstacles may force it to change its course, but never its destination.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
Correct conditions
Already acclimated
Dense branches
Plant growth juxtaposition indicates divergent environmental adaptation strategies.
“Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is.” – Herman Hesse
Highly adaptable
Composite organism
Community recognized
Approximately six percent of the Earth’s land surface is covered by lichens. Specimens of symbiotic survival, lichens have no roots and feed solely on oxygen, mineral-laden moisture, and sunlight. The fungi component holds the needed moisture while the algae component converts sunlight into food. Photosynthetic partners both benefit.
“One could speculate that lichens would be among the last inhabitants to succumb on a dying earth at some distant point in the future.” – Steven L. Stephenson
Transfer of heat
Surface manifestation
Volcanic caldera
Volcanic activity reaffirms the dynamic nature of the inner, rocky planets of the solar system. Planetary evolution proceeds dependent on terrestrial composition, mass, and distance from the Sun. The Earth is massive enough to be configured by its own gravity, but not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion.
“Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.” – Andrea Gibson
Agricultural heritage
Rural area landmark
Stand the test of time
Seen from the highway, attractive farm architecture from another era punctuates the countryside. As affected, influenced, or shaped by human involvement, cultural landscapes focus on terrain and resource utilization.
“It’s difficult to pinpoint what it is about old buildings — barns in particular — that make them so fascinating to see, experience, and photograph.” – Jennifer Brooks