Boundaries

Plane and depth
Exploration
Orientation in space

Intertwined layers mobilize at the boundary surface.

“The less there is to look at, the more important it is that we look at it closely and carefully.” – Kirk Varnedoe

Choose your ground
Meaningful pursuits
Look around

The cemetery is slow-paced and rich in texture.

“And all you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be.” – Roger Waters

See from somewhere
Certain manner
Approaching the object

A clone from the future appears in a store front window.

“Our perception ends in objects, and the object once constituted, appears as the reason for all the experiences of it which we have had or could have.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Pass quickly
Before our eyes
Guise of objects

Window interfaces can hold our gaze while asking questions.

“It is impossible, in this world, to separate things from their way of appearing.“ – Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Merely receptive
Rough equivalent
Noumenal concepts

An inviting painting hides the locking of a door to another realm.

“Though we cannot know these objects as things in themselves, we must be in a position at least to think of them as things in themselves; otherwise we should be landed in the absurd conclusion that there can be appearance without anything that appears.” – Immanuel Kant

Parking lot
Supply chain
Dependency

Misguided systems tend toward disintegration.

“We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.” – Mao Zedong

Condition society
Constrain behavior
Controlling governance

The power of the ruling class is continuously enforced.

“The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material.” – Anthony Fauci

Normative ordering
Investigate immanence
Consistent disengagement

The precise existence of things appear in ever again renewed describable confirmations.

“Now you will understand what it means to say that each experienced thing as such is an index for a certain normative ordering in consciousness as pure consciousness.” – Edmund Husserl

Through a presence
Sensuous original
Creative act

Aesthetic perception does not stop at mere identification.

“As soon as we cease to oppose the aesthetic object’s form to what is represented in this object and realize how aesthetic perception grasps what is represented within form itself, then such a form, which embraces what is represented, becomes the genuine Gestalt and the signifying unity of the object.” – Mikel Dufrenne

Wild leek
Unique flower
Naturalized locally

Although this four-foot tall purple-headed flower originated in Europe, it is now protected by Virginia law:”…gathering or collecting the Yorktown Onion shall be prohibited”.

“Look at them soon, because by late June, these wildflowers will be gone until next year. “ – Molly Feser