Shadow Self

Ridgeline cliff
Upright boulder
Perfectly balanced

Research and effort pays off on a visit to Miracle Rock.

“Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.” – Hannah Arendt

Realism understands
Independent object
Experiencing subject

The shadowself finds semiotics within a geometrical motif.

“The task of the idealist is to show how the subject can objectify the content of subjective awareness and experience.” – Jan-Kyrre Berg Olsen

Discernment
Once-over
Scrutiny

The shadowself fits into a complex environment.

“Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.” – Carl Jung

Shadow self
Close attention
Western landscape

Building an experiential base of constructive memories, adventures come and go.

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

Conjure up
Stand out
Pier peers

Shadow siblings visit the Avalon Fishing Pier.

“Brother and sister, together as friends, ready to face whatever life sends.” – Suzie Huitt

Tangible being
Distinct experiences
Subtend one another

The shadowself fits into a large open tent on the lawn.

“There is double and crossed situating of the visible in the tangible and of the tangible in the visible; the two maps are complete, and yet they do not merge into one.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Material object
Conscious being
Existence engagement

Through reason and reflection, the shadowself materializes in different times and places promoting inner and outer occurrence consideration.

“Consciousness always accompanies thinking, and ‘tis that, that makes every one to be, what he calls self.” – John Locke

Dissolve into today
Walk together
Catalytic presence

Diverse spatial patterns become evident in directional radiation response. The shadowself appearance indicates a transitory presence in space and time.

“The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.” – Eckhart Tolle

Relationship dance
Self significance
Reality collision

In the context in which it occurs, the shadowself responses to other indexical elements while walking across fringes of the urban environment.

“Movement in our mental life can only take place when an appropriate goal has been chosen.” – Alfred Adler

Light intensity
Information exercise
Awareness experience

The shadowself understands that awareness accounting necessarily distorts accuracy. Attention is the cognitive transaction of enhancing some discernible indications at the expense of other evidence.

“Why would the brain waste energy computing information about subjective awareness and attributing that property to itself, if the brain doesn’t in fact have this property?” – Michael S. A. Graziano