Lens workings
Engages spirituality
Sense of mystery
An exploration of the meaning of existence is augmented by using epistemically transformative optics.
“Creativity cannot flourish if we keep seeing only the things we expect to see.” – Lidor Wyssocky
Intricate process
Unique environment
Herbaceous habitat
Cool temperatures and shorter days mark the end of the line for the yellow yard flowers.
“Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.” – John Lubbock
Material things
Abstract entities
Physical magnitude
A large tall clump of daisy-like flowers grace the front yard as an autumnal feature.
“Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.” – Rudolf Carnap
Everyday passion
Emotional investment
Vital equilibrium
Creativity is its own reward.
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.” – Oscar Wilde
Dense wet forest
Conflicting responses
Adventures to come
Magical moments are apt to materialize at unexpected occasions.
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.” – Roald Dahl
Ripe cherries
Bursting straight
From the tree
It is particularly satisfying to pick and eat fruit directly from the tree. Like all good things, the experience is ephemeral while the memory enduring.
“Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.” – Paul Klee
Bewitched while
The sun shines
Edges of cultivation
A distinctive form of temporality emerges in the backyard. This year our apple tree was especially full of blossoms. As an understanding and lived experience of time, they only lasted about a week.
“The earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Particular phenomena
Succession proceeds
Through freedom
Spinoza could not tolerate separation between ideas and things outside us. In his formulation, Ideal thought and real objectivity are intimately united in our nature. They are only modifications of one and the same ideal nature, an infinite from which arose affections and modification of an endless series of finite things.
“The ideal world presses mightily towards the light, but is still held back by the fact that Nature has withdrawn as a mystery.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Wandering through
Every essence
Fickle wind
Beauty is a productive conduit to truth when exercising the mental faculty of acquiring knowledge, by either direct observation or by understanding. The true, the good, and the beautiful are by nature eternal, in the midst of time yet independent of time. In actuality, for Schelling the philosopher must possess just as much aesthetic power as the poet.
“Nature meets us everywhere, at first with reserve, and in form more or less severe. She is like that quiet and serious beauty, that excites not attention by noisy advertisement, nor attracts the vulgar gaze.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Seed head
Dispersal unit
Adaptable grass
An active interest in scientific learning helps to develop the creative imagination, that intuitive vision in which the particular adapts to the universal. True scientific inquiry recognizes possibilities, whereas common sense grasps only apparent realities.
“The world doesn’t change in front of your eyes; it changes behind your back.” – Terry Hayes