City

Dynamic nexus
Actual occasions
Crepuscular embrace

A frozen moment is extracted from the continuous flow of prehensions.

“The teleology of the universe is directed to the production of beauty.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Urban tableau
Power operates
Visual discourse

The image invites us to consider how power operates through the visual, how it shapes our perception of the world, and how it inscribes itself upon our bodies and our minds.

“The history which bears and determines us has the form of a war.” – Michel Foucault

Rhythmic dance
Specific intersection
Harmonious interplay

The very act of walking, an act so ordinary as to be almost unnoticed, becomes a source of profound contemplation when undertaken with an aesthetic sensibility.

“The aesthetic judgment is not a judgment of taste, but a judgment of intuition.” – Benedetto Crocea

Support structure
Primarily resists
Lateral forces

Hard-edge linear forms are augmented by light.

“I never met a straight line I did not like.” – Carmen Herrera

Nexus of past
Present and future
Possibilities

A complex of experiences require an active engagement with what is: the interconnectedness between all physical things that determine their particular nature.

“The first analysis of an actual entity, into its most concrete elements, discloses it to be a concrescence of prehensions, which have originated in its process of becoming.” – Alfred North Whitehead

City matrix
Static substances
Dynamic processes

Here we approach organized complexity as an event in the process of becoming.

“The final realites of the world are not hard, irreducible, stubborn facts, but are events, happenings, occurrences. The entire character of actuality is to be described by these.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Sign reflection
Interior shop
Exterior world

The static shop sign and the dynamic reflection create a dialectical sway.

“The street is a stage for the everyday.” – Walter Benjamin

Inclination longitude
Imaginary quantities
Coordinate axis

Working on art museum display electromagnetic radiation interactions

“We don’t all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination.” – Janelle Monae

Stewart’s
Pawn shop
TV’s laptops

Standing on the outskirts of the scene, geometrical organization emerges from a place of deep thought and great meaning.

“Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?” – Steven Wright

Multifaceted mashup
Spatio-temporal
Dataset

Social and urban emergent relationships develop across the urban spectacle.

“Exploratory visual analysis that proceeds in an iterative fashion can be a highly effective means of preliminary investigation.” – Jo Wood