Bounded Space
Appearance unfolds
Ethereal messenger
Fleeting thoughts
The glass offers a deceptive transparency, a seeming absence that paradoxically makes presence visible.
“Reality is not a thing, but a happening.” – José Ortega y Gasset
Silica formed Into a Vessel
Crystallized moment
Natural expression
Metaphysical implications
The glass, in its limpidity, appears to negate its own substantiality, allowing light to pass through unimpeded. It becomes a paradoxical entity – present yet almost absent, a container defined by the void it encloses.
“The aesthetic fact is altogether spiritual; all that is physical in it is a mere vehicle, a means to stimulate the spiritual activity.” – Benedetto Croce
Tangible Essence
Deeper nature
Physical distillation
Visual language
The interplay of light and shadow sculpts the fabric, revealing its dimensionality and inviting us to contemplate the ephemeral nature of perception.
“The hidden harmony is stronger than the obvious.” – Heraclitus
Metallic Verticality
Piercing the plane
Resting upon
Horizontal layered form
The image is not a static entity but a seed of semiosis, a catalyst for an unending chain of interpretations.
“The essence of belief is the establishment of habit.” – Charles Sanders Peirce
Hanging of Nothings
Row of empty arms
Waiting for something
To hold
Metaphysics is about seeing the unseen, hearing the unheard, knowing that even in emptiness there’s something there.
“All I can do is be me, whoever that is.” – Bob Dylan
Porcelain Equine
Distillation selection
Salient features
Manufactured entity
Our cognitive capacities far exceed the limited input we receive from the environment.
“It’s not that I have any evidence that I’m right, but it’s not that other people have any evidence that they’re right either.” – Noam Chomsky
Complexity and Emergence
Apparent simplicity
Intricate workings
Underlying systems
Perception is not a direct transcription of reality but a subjective interpretation, a dance between the observed and the observer.
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anaïs Nin
Swirl of Diaphanous Forms
Fabric of experience
Woven into
Act of seeing
The translucent layers, overlapping and interpenetrating, evoke the fluid and interconnected nature of our lived experience.
“Experience in its vital form is a matter of interaction of organism and environment.” – John Dewey
Perception Theater
Canvas upon
Paint narratives
Silent partner
Your internal state significantly influences your external reality.
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
Funded Present
Quietly compelling
Evocation interaction
Qualitative dimension
John Dewey suggests that it is in the “undergoing” of an experience, in the dwelling upon its qualities, that we find its aesthetic value.
“The emotions are not mere accompaniments of experience; they are integral parts of it.” – John Dewey