Unseen melodies
Take shape
In the tangible air
The market stalls in the background, draped with cloths and displaying wares, are the “already-there,” the backdrop against which the aesthetic event unfolds.
“The aesthetic object is not a thing among things; it is a world.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Metal rack
Vibrant tapestry
Visual force
An image that captures the tension between the Apollonian and the Dionysian, embodies the Will to Power, and hints at the flux and impermanence of existence.
“It is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Tangible matter
Ephemeral dance
Light and shadow
Our understanding of existence is enriched precisely by our relative position in space-time external of the observable.
“A meaning only reveals its depths once it has encountered and come into contact with another meaning, belonging to another context, another foreign consciousness.” – Mikhail Bakhtin
Vibrant entity
Verdant hue
Field of potentiality
The image invites us to ponder not just what we see, but how we see, and what that seeing reveals about our being-in-the-world.
“The world is inseparable from the subject, but from a subject which is nothing but a project of the world, and the subject is inseparable from the world, but from a world which it projects.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Functional fades
Fundamental emerges
Structure of being
That which transcends our finite understanding is already manifested in our experience.
“The Encompassing is that out of which everything that is becomes understandable to us, that which is never an object, but that in which all objects appear.” – Karl Jaspers
Appearance unfolds
Ethereal messenger
Fleeting thoughts
The glass offers a deceptive transparency, a seeming absence that paradoxically makes presence visible.
“Reality is not a thing, but a happening.” – José Ortega y Gasset
Silent testament
Order and division
Shoe shine station
The reflective surface introduces an element of the ephemeral, a shimmering layer that both mirrors and refracts the solid world, reminding us of the ever-shifting nature of perception.
“The journey of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Edith Stein
Scratches remnants
Forgotten adhesions
Resonance of past encounters
Another fragmented distrested surface is found in a bus stop shelter in the hub of the city.
“The aesthetic object is not reducible to the sum of its sensible qualities.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Reflected moment
How to be
In a newsstand
This fragmented surface compels us to see beyond the superficial and to ponder the profound realities etched into its complex structure.
“The work of art is a singular object, irreplaceable and inexhaustible.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Raconteur
Actor
Role player
Sometimes it is possible to see beyond objects into a larger connected domain.
“Art should not be limited to the representation of objects, but should strive to express the universal through the particular.” – Piet Mondrian