Contextual backdrop
Against which all
Experience unfolds
The light is not simply there; it is being processed by the material, revealing its contours and imparting a certain glow.
“Experience is primarily an active and passive affair; it is an undergoing of consequences and an enjoyment of results.” – John Dewey
Vibrant congeries
Actual occasions
Ceaselessly coming into being
The interplay of light and shadow, the warm glow emanating from within the structure, the sharp angles contrasting with the soft blur of the background, all contribute to a vivid harmony.
“The actual occasions are the final real things of which the world is made up. There is no going behind actual occasions to find anything more real.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Organic rhythm
Otherwise rigid
Repetitive geometry
It is the immediate, undivided grasping of the image that constitutes its aesthetic character.
“The artist produces an image or a phantasm; and he who enjoys art turns his gaze on the point to which the artist has pointed, looks through the chink which he has opened, and reproduces the image in himself.” – Benedetto Crocea
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