Main mast
Upper structure
Lookout point
Observationally it is useful to establish a propitious vantage perspective.
“Position is given by a system of fixed magnitudes and motion is expressed by a law, by a constant relation between variable magnitudes.” – Henri Bergson
Entangled circumstances
Objective background
Unintended acts
Perception is a background of what is present.
“Not only do we now have an expectation of the datum, then a perception of it, then a memory as retention, then a recollection, then a repeated recollection, but these series of acts also stand as series before our consciousness in the recollecting reflection.” – Edmund Husserl
Precise expression
Accessible propagation
Life aspect
Connected groups of sensation substitute for the thing in itself.
“We can exercise on each perception of a thing a phenomenological reduction in such a manner that we make this perception in itself an object.” – Edmund Husserl
Successive states
Externalizing
In relation
Thinking is often scalular.
“Distinct states of the external world give rise to states of consciousness which permeate one another, imperceptibly organize themselves into a whole, and bind the past to the present by this very process of connexion.” – Henri Bergson
Action process
Waveform correlation
Displacement amplitude
Directional wind forces create undulation patterns on the lake-surface.
“Space alone is homogeneous, objects in space form a discrete multiplicity, and every discrete multiplicity is got by a process of unfolding in space.” – Henri Bergson
Combined instinct
Contingent expression
Decisive influence
Actual experience derives from the conditions of all possible experience.
“We apply the term subjective to what seems to be completely and adequately known, and the term objective to what is known in such a way that a constantly increasing number of new impressions could be substituted for the idea which we actually have of it.”” – Henri Bergson
Imagining consciousness
Sphere of perception
Phenomenological distinction
Serene reflections near and far combine meditatively.
“When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”” – Lao Tzu
Immediate givenness
Describing and theorizing
Broadly encompassing
Used and discarded fishing line, rope, and other accouterments fill a large barrow.
“The perception is an act that is a single particular in an enveloping total consciousness, and no total consciousness consists exclusively of a perceptual act and nothing else.”” – Edmund Husserl
Usually sweet
Baked dough
High fat content
A morning energy break from an intense small town visual exploration.
“Superb pastry could only have developed where wheat was grown: rye, barley and oats do not make good pastry, nor do rice or maize or potato starch.” – Janet Clarkson
Flat plane
Coarse grain
Iron steel
The best way to extract aesthetic potential is to reduce expectations.
“All I can say about the work I try to do is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.” – Helen Levitt