Pretextual paradigm
Dialectic contexts
Objective value
With repeated exposure comes deeper appreciation. Knowledge is a matter of refined expectations.
“Many narratives concerning a self-sufficient totality may be revealed. ” – Martin Hubbard
Repeated form
Rhythm regularity
Natural distribution
Ocean wave flow patterns standout in relief with the morning angled sunshine.
“Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns.” – Fritjof Capra
Domain entities
Sand infrastructure
Variegated dispersion
Organizing information is an important aesthetic activity. Pure abstraction offers windows in the walls of the organization.
“Individuals are allowed to inhabit the experiences of others through their interactions with art.” – Meridith Reed
Assessing haziness
Insulated glass unit
Window seal failure
Synthesizing evidence from objects, art can be made from entirely improbable sources.
“The multi-pane glass develops condensation or fogginess that can’t be wiped off from either side of the window. The cause is a failure in the edge seal that secures the individual panes of glass.” Lee Wallender
Overall assessment
Phantom elegance
Kindred spirit
On the edge of the forest, the cosmic and the abstract are illuminated by observable radiation. The space between ideas stretches across a relevant and revealing threshold.
“Chaos is the law of nature; order is the dream of man.” – Henry Adams
High altitude
Cold climate change
Environmental exercise
Sometimes natural processes appear so beautifully aesthetic that they seem to be intentional. This aesthetic dimension is fundamentally infused into the pattern of existence.
“Well, if there’s one thing I’ve learned in this topsy-turvy world of ours, it’s that it’s pointless to try to steer this crazy roller coaster ride called Life, so you might as well just hold on.” – Neil Peart
Sheer space
Around the edge
Presence felt
An aggregated abstraction painted on the side on a small wooden structure, located in a previously visited venue of the distant past, resurfaces as a target of interest. Isolated entities, framed within a frame, formulate a system of object categorization.
“Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.” – Jean Piaget
Visionary affect
Pleasantly surprised
Arrangement interest
On an engaging day long ago, I explore the visual boundaries of the air force base. Such aesthetic activity was antithetical to the tightly controlled environment.
“Like so many other truths, pointless.” – Neil Peart
Naturally spontaneous
Organic abstraction
Resonance oscillation
Going back and processing images captured during my earliest days of photographic activity is illuminating. Art is a balance of learning and unaffected experience.
“With such currents in the existential sea to swim through, a day spent in motion helped keep me afloat, forcing me to be moderately curious about my surroundings, and to concentrate on what I was doing.” – Neil Peart
Direct awareness
External world
On the move
Qualities of objects and events are perceptual abstractions which are synthetically recognized as objective truth. A shared cultural inventory of accepted theories are foundational to understanding.
“The chief vestige of subjectivity is the fallacy that everybody else also cares about the same things as the observer, and/or lives in his/her exact same state of mind.” – Stephan Attia