Sharp attention
Action initiation
Temporal duration
Opportunities must be made to build upon ideas.
“There has to be permission to act, and the mind must lend its full support to being. We only feel this support, we only feel the mind’s presence, in the repose that precedes the action, when the possible and the real are clearly compared.” – Gaston Bachelard
Nocturnal time
Darkness reprieves
Morning tranquilize
An early morning color burst over the lake inspires creative operations.
“Unfortunately your work was not chosen for the exhibition, but it was a pleasure to view your work, your accomplishments as a photographer and your dedication to the on-going process of being an artist.” – Todd Johnson
Clearly physical
Complicated interaction
Generalized extrapolation
Juggling independent ideas while building abstract hierarchies within a structural formula, a particular subjectively can broach a multiplicity of meanings.
“The function of abstraction is not to provide generality but to facilitate the assembly process and to provide a different categorization of the world than the one suggested by perceptual similarities.” – Stellan Ohlsson
Elevated views
Fields of incentive
Covered with gray
Entangled extraction on a wild walk through town.
“You go to the edge, and you always give in. On your first flash of freedom.” – Tom Petty
Mind power
Framing ideas
Abstract notions
Sand blown onto the beach boardwalk fills up the cracks and crevices while bright sunlight stripes add ambiguity. I walked over this for months before recognizing it’s aesthetic potential. Makes me think about what else I might be missing.
“By generalizing abstraction, we mentally separate one idea from its particular determinations, as when we think of a color but no particular color.” – Samuel C. Rickless
Different world
Contact knowledge
Wonderful wonderment
Abstraction builds formidable understanding.
“We adore chaos because we love to produce order.” – M.C. Escher
Theoretical elaboration
Indeterminate reference
Ambiguous delineation
Wandering through the strip-mall at dusk, abstract objects reflect off opposed surfaces.
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Ground texture
Irregular surface
Wet mud pattern
Shading and rendering found on the edge of a saltwater marsh forms an artful abstraction.
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” – John Keats
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