Ambient Ambulation

Lack of clarity
Perceptions challenged
Anonymous silhouettes

There is no grand plan or purpose. We are simply here, and we must make our own meaning in life.

“Man is the only creature who refuses what he is.” – Albert Camus

Familiar object
Unfamiliar setting
Place in the world

From a transcendentalist perspective, creative effort acknowledges the role of the mind in shaping our perceptions and experiences.

“The world is a mystery, and the more we learn about it, the more mysterious it becomes. But this mystery is not something to be feared. It is a source of wonder and awe. It is what makes life so interesting and challenging.” – Paul Carus

Mediated by
The camera
Perceptual faculties

The mind is not a passive recipient of sensory impressions, but rather plays an active role in constructing our experience of the world.

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.” – Immanuel Kant

Sparks ignite
Contagious energy
Synchronous relation

A bright brief moment reflected in another source of light.

“I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes.”– Neil Peart

Enchanted way
Kiss of night
Ramble on

Onward towards the dawn.

“She treads the mystic trail That points to yonder peak; Her raptured eyes to the morning skies A world of homage speak.” – Ruby Archer

Emotion resides
Worthwhile whole
Mystery confirmation

Looking back at the pub as night falls, contentment with the unknown flares.

“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don’t know.” — Sherman Alexie

Sense impressions
Universal concepts
Categories impose

Color and light are sometimes very well distributed across the visual field.

“Look closely. The beautiful may be small.” – Immanuel Kant

Vibrant place
Natural causes
Thought patterns

Going on a road trip opens-up the possibility to experience an unfamiliar venue for the first time.

“It goes through a process of aiming for a goal and completely focuses on it a hundred percent without any other backup plans in mind believing that you will achieve it.” – Isaac Nash

Facts thrown up
By which it comes
Into existence

It is useful to try considering perception in light of the act of perception.

“Perception does not present itself in the first place as an event in the world to which the category of causality, for example, can be applied, but as a re-creation or re-constitution of the world at every moment.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Time spread out
Modeling corporeity
Naturally inclines

In the direction which material things develop, experience pushes facts while climbing a hill in early spring.

“And as there is indeed no intuition that carries us into the non-temporal, all intuition is thus found to be sensuous, by definition.” – Henri Bergson