Mostly transparent
Obscuring phenomena
Reflective enrapture
On another visit to the Historic Corolla Park to experience a sunset over the Currituck Sound, conditions initially seem aesthetically unfavorable. But as time goes by, visual potential is revealed.
“Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.” – Suzy Kassem
Things see
Parts of itself
Consequent duration
Landscapes defined within a perceptual frame of reference represent memory posited by immediate sense-awareness.
“Congruence is a particular example of the fundamental fact of recognition. In perception we recognize. ” – Alfred North Whitehead
Tower gaze
Wheeling round
Light unveils
While slowly walking and observing as the ambient light continuously varies, occasionally things all fall into place.
“For, when nearly sundown, he ascends the high tower, He lights the big lantern that gleams through the night; For the sea-faring sailors, roaming over the ocean, Who patiently watch for the red beacon light.” – Elmenia P. Lurvey
To the north
Shore illumination
Passing storm
The shore doesn’t care about anything, it just exists in an ever-changing display of natural forces.
“We can endure the storms only if we believe that the sun will soon come out of the clouds!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
Nearly stemless
Short rosette shrub
Spine-tipped
In some environments, the synergy between native vegetation and human habitation is acute.
“Adam’s needle is tolerant of poor, sandy soils, heat, drought, and salt spray.” – Peter Wyse Jackson
Exceptional variation
Significant evolution
Potency reveal
In some cases, it takes an extended period of analysis and experimentation to realize aesthetic potential.
“Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Judgment restriction
Contingent discretion
Asset liability
The elapse of time always offers new perspectives on potential opportunity.
“It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.” – John Burroughs
Structural isomorphism
Ruminating relation
Flux of becoming
Early morning horizon lights dance on the edge of the land.
“Some elements on the periphery are brought into the center and others relegated to the fringes.” – Kent Palmer
Isolating interior
Physical discontinuity
Qualitative differentiation
Whether boundary concepts meditate the coherent structure of the world, or represent active manifestations of mental organization, are matters of curiosity.
“The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.” – Erin Hunter
Still functions
Passing mariners
Environmental integration
Most subjects aesthetically benefit from extensive views from many different angles.
“Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other.” – Virginia Woolf