Incomplete forms
Scratched inscriptions
Contingency of all that is
The eye seeks definition, yet the composition resists, pushing us toward that which lies beyond the immediately graspable.
“Being is only accessible to us in particular modes, which are not being itself.” – Karl Jaspers
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
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
Underlying order
Potential harmony
Veiled within the particular
The image invites us to move beyond the surface, to contemplate the fundamental principles that govern existence, and to seek the universal within the particular.
“Art is not the reproduction of what we see; but it is the thing that makes us see.” – Piet Mondrian
Form pattern
Ever-shifting
Flux of experience
Objects, though seemingly static, are in a constant state of becoming, their forms defined and redefined by the play of light.
“The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to the performance.” – Ansel Adam
Meaning suspended
Essence revealed
Inchoate feeling
The metaphysics inherent in the aesthetic experience lies in the realization that empirical reality is but a fleeting manifestation of a deeper more fundamental reality.
“The world which as a rule we imagine as existing outside us, is nothing but a construction of our intellect.” – Benedetto Crocea
Embrace fluidity
Space of relations
State of encounter
The liquid form, with its malleable, ephemeral quality, becomes a metaphor for the fluidity of being itself.
“The artist no longer confronts a raw material, but already coded objects.” – Nicolas Bourriaud
Into the deeper
More subtle
Realms of existence
The explicate order, the world of manifest appearances, is merely a projection, a slice, a cross-section of this deeper, more fundamental reality – the implicate order.
“Ultimately, the entire universe has to be understood as a single undivided whole; in which analysis into separately and independently existent parts has no fundamental status.” – David Bohm
Patterned interplay
Splashes of color
Hidden narratives
Beauty is not merely a superficial quality but a profound experience that arises from the interplay of form, color, and texture.
“Art is a continuous self-control in the pursuit of an ideal.” – Charles Sanders Peirce
Metal tendrils
Sinuous serpentine
Intertwine coil
We do not merely see things; we encounter them, interpret them, and imbue them with meaning.
“The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.” – Martin Heidegger