August 2019 – latentsifier

Central Prairie

Long gone reminder
Diverse grasslands
Periodic disturbance

The expansive American prairie’s demise was caused by human agricultural conversion. Plowing and cultivation of the native land compromised grass root systems and interrupted survival and renewal patterns.

“We have taken into our language the word prairie, because when our backwoodsmen first reached the land and saw the great natural meadows of long grass—sights unknown to the gloomy forests wherein they had always dwelt—they knew not what to call them, and borrowed the term already in use among the French inhabitants.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Upper Limits

Action indicator
Constitutive reality
Pivotal motivation

Setting the stage for future possibilities, directional signage rapidly flashes-by overhead. Opening an imperative to collect experiences, elsewhere things are different from how things are here.

“Imagination may have a disruptive function. Its image in this case is productive, an imaging of something else, the elsewhere.” – Paul Ricoeur

Capacity to Configure

Segmented paradigm
Tradition innovation
Schematizing function

Another stage of narrative imagination becomes a formative influence dominating appearances. Emphasizing architectural elements through color differentiation, the old town storefront facade takes on new life.

“Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.” – Jack Gardner

Board Walk

Wooden plank
Elevated footpath
Timber trackway

Crossing over fragile marshy wetlands, a commercial esplanade designed as a tourist attraction dominates the landscape. Humans tend to believe that they are the most important entities in the universe.

“Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?” – Saint Augustine of Hippo

Atmospheric Interlude

Fundamental energy
Convincing exchange
Alternatives determined

In an aesthetic frame of mind, a sunrise over the ocean entails complex interpretation of spiritual dimensions.

“Even the most ordinary instance of perception relies on imagination.” – Richard Kearney

Contact Narrative

Encounter between
Obsequious dependency
Displacements

Constraining shaped things to serve specific intents, the shadowself extemporizes itself within a sunlit interior. In a living world, interactive networks extend far beyond the physical body and immediate surroundings.

“We cannot bear the thought of objects having an autonomous life, even if this life is ultimately attributable to us.” – Steven Shaviro

Lush Marsh

Winding waterway
Along shorelines
Marine grasses

Life reciprocates with the physical environment. Over millions of years, evolving species learn how to survive through varying existential conditions. Supporting rich environmental biodiversity on the sound side of the Outer Banks, much of the shoreline is bordered by prolific marsh grass.

“The habitats formed by seagrasses are home to many different creatures that make it a complex ecosystem.” – Aimee Lee

Reference Shift

Analogous demonstrative
Quantifier extension
Context relativization

In a complex system of interrelated relationships, sometimes things outside the reference frame dominate meaning interpretation.

“It is commonly asserted that the photographic image is an indexical trace that, to quote Peirce’s famous definition, is ‘physically forced to correspond point by point to nature’.” – Janne Seppanen

Cross Verification

Deducing angles
Relative positions
Baseline observation

In the parking lot at noon, things can become surprisingly interesting, well arranged, and orderly. Geometry accesses the eternal.

“Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.” – Plato

Oceanic Currents

Acting forces
Breaking waves
Roam the sea

Under a bright sun, the coastal shoreline threshold shifts into a dazzling blur of color and light. The sensory and affective impact of the ocean environment argues for the primal role of the aesthetic in human experience.

“Smell the sea, and feel the sky, let your soul and spirit fly, into the mystic.” – Van Morrison

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