Immaterialism
Pigments applied
Empirical tenets
Perceptual act
What do we perceive besides our own ideas or sensations?
“But sight, touch, and hearing are all ultimately sensations in our minds.” – George Berkeley
Fortuitous Accord
Matter structure
Meaning framework
Aesthetic enterprise
Shadows on fabric at a construction site morph into something else.
“The signs at work here do not have their own matter or, at best, they have an indifferent matter.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Indefinite Generality
Common conception
Ordinary forces
Restore continuity
Distances can be deceiving.
“The career and destiny of a living being are bound up with its interchanges with its environment.” – John Dewey
Take Time
Grid sequence
Movement speed
Elapsed sensation
Some camera features turnout to possess unintended potential.
“All we are not stares back at what we are.” – W.H. Auden
Essence Essentially
Temporal disposition
Imperfect idealization
Relativism entrenchment
Working deeper within the swamp opens possibleness.
“It’s the photographer’s job to capture these random moments before they disappear.” – Graham Nash
Optical Angle
Acute edge
Wave distortion
Aesthetic control
Walks in the colony allow for photographic lens experimentation.
“The path between the trees leads us home.” – Catherine DeBenedetto
Levitation
Upward force
Home position
Reactive floating
Something out on the lawn.
“He wondered if other Shifters had the same homing instinct for a teleportation departure point.” – J.M. Johnson
Predawn Horizon
Period of twilight
Dancing at daybreak
Fishingboat lights
At certain times of the year, commercial fishing boats work the Outer Banks.
“As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.” – Izaak Walton
Essence Indicated
Physical substances
Entailment relations
Fundamental necessity
The local swamp is densely wooded and full of life.
“A nominal essence, on the other hand, is an abstract idea that we make when we identify similar qualities shared by objects; the nominal essence is the idea of those shared similarities.” – Jan-Erik Jones
Nature of Order
Inextricably connected
Inner feeling
Incalculable depth
To establish a reasonable grasp of the universe and our place in it, in a single theory Alfred North Whitehead united the experience of the inner self and the mechanistic character of external matter. Awareness of this interplay yields-up concise surrealist ruminations.
“The mystery is what makes it interesting, isn’t it?” – Walter Becker