Order to establish
Elaborate appropriately
Formulation inspiration
Ideas reconfigure internal thinking and shift awareness objectives. Associated external relationships fluctuate.
“Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.” – Osho
Ground surface
Blowing sand
Frontal dune
Exercising control over erosion is an attempt to stabilize intrinsic dynamic processes. The integrity of the natural system is compromised by imperious management.
“When the fence system is approximately two-thirds filled with sand, erect another series of fences until desired dune height is reached.” – Jan Smith
Ever changing
Vibrant transit
Positional exchange
The start of an image series is predicated on developmental opportunity. Cognitive potentials seem to arise with new specific types of aesthetic interaction.
“Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back.” – John O’Donohue
Rejected bycatch
Untargeted species
Commercial fishing
Suddenly one morning, many dead or dying rays are found washed up on the beach. Such cartilaginous fishes cannot recover rapidly if their populations are depleted.
“If we truly want to save the ocean’s most fascinating creatures, we must stop supporting the industries that are destroying them.” – Julie Cappiello
Easily affected
Highly dynamic
Integral component
Just behind the ocean front sand dune, growth and survival of specialized vegetation helps to maintain the fragile system. Such dune vegetation is robust and tolerant to extreme environmental conditions, but cannot survive being trampled.
“The Outer Banks is really only filaments of sand running across ancient river channels, relics of the last ice age, when sea levels were far lower and the coastline was hundreds of miles farther out than it is today.” – William A. Birkemeier
Constant change
Place and time
Tide will turn
The ocean is a ceaseless phenomenon, with cyclical appearance variations evident continuously. Here water depth variations undulate outward from the shore.
“Meet me where the sky touches the sea.” – Nicole LaBarge
Material fixations
Spiritual raiment
Movement action
Traveling through the undergrowth, beauty becomes an exercise in selective particularization. The extraordinary is often found in the ordinary.
“And to the variety due to climate there is added that caused by the topographical features of the different regions. Again, the vegetation is profoundly varied by the peculiar distribution of the soil and moisture.” – John Muir
Simple placement
Light and waves
Mood of delight
Walking over the top of lumpy dunes on the Outer Banks, moving towards the ocean, vibrations from the tumbling waves instinctively calm the nerves.
“Time is a wave or a black hole could not bend it; humanity rides the crest of an infinite number of waves that are perceived as linear in their limited frame of reference.” – Ken Poirot
Elongated eyestalks
Unequally sized claws
Semiterrestrial generalist
Ghost crabs are nimble runners, scooting away at the slightest indication of danger. In fact, the genius name Ocypode means “swift-footed” in Latin. This particular representative, however, was uncharacteristically lethargic.
“I once had a patient who was convinced that his head was full of sea water and a crab lived inside.” – Michael Robotham
Straight lines
Way back along
Imaginary path
Fresh paint and afternoon light bring geometric relationships into visual harmony.
“Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.” – Thomas Carlyle