Local favorite
Heart of downtown
Elegant yet casual
Traditional American fare in a circa-1873 church now featuring tavern ambiance amidst sanctuary.
“The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.” – John Lubbock
Site of Difference
Transition access
Shapes experience
Through its relationship with other objects and the spaces it connects, the door handle destabilizes the notion of a fixed or determinate meaning.
“We are all mediators, translators.” – Jacques Derrida
Glass stem
Blackhead
Support system
Circumstances, objects, and events are all around.
“We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.” – Amber Valletta
Serving to establish
A standard
Water vapor
The higher the humidity, the wetter it feels.
“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
Broken blind
Seemingly mundane
Window treatment
We do not inherently perceive the material world itself, but rather, our minds interpret sensory data to construct a world of experience.
“And in short, there is nothing which I cannot conceive as existing independent of my own mind, in some part of infinite space, without any relation to me.” – George Berkeley
Curious scene
Role of objects
Authentic reflection
The staircase only exists in relation to the display case, and the display case only has meaning in relation to the staircase.
“The objects encountered in the course of experience have volatilized to the point where they can be grasped only by the allegorical method.” – Walter Benjamin
Intentional beings
Capable of having
Subjective experiences
The starfish, with its radial symmetry and lack of a centralized nervous system, may not perceive the world in the same way that we do.
“The other is not another closed ego-monad, but an alter ego constituted in my own ego.” – Edmund Husserl
Sensory details
Pluralistic field
Stylistic progression
Spectral echoes of a life shared begin to reassert themselves.
“Art is the ultimate expression of human creativity and imagination, allowing us to explore and question the world in profound and meaningful ways.” – Arthur C Danto
Crook of reality
Paradox cradled
Symmetrical distribution
A pair of twins hold up a dream of shared memories.
“Being-together as the being-with one another of Daseins, not of persons – and not even a ‘with’ one another in the sense of an addition of isolated beings.” – Martin Heidegger
Meaning dances
Liminal space
Form and flow
Within the stillness of the golden head, a storm of becoming rages.
“The head is not the brain.” – Gilles Deleuze