Water reservoir
On the Colorado River
In Austin Texas
Durational tales unfold on the riverbank, where the scenery remains incessantly and dynamically engaging.
“A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.” – Laura Gilpin
Extensive magnitude
Sensations yielded
Inner multiplicity
As they unfold themselves in duration, states of consciousness are not operative in isolation, but rather proceed in tangible multiplicity.
“No state once gone can recur and be identical with what it was before.” – William James
Internal conjunction
Absolute unification
Movement coordination
Integrated and interpreted by an active assessment process, duration is a constant succession of presentations, oriented towards refining a comprehension of existence.
“It can be conceived (although it can hardly be imagined) that energy might be saved up, and then expended on varying lines running across a matter not yet solidified.” – Henri Bergson
Infinite circle
Stimulating enigma
Outside the periphery
We tend to neglect the sheer improbability of existence and the marvel of its performances. But since we can readily view all things from an eternal frame of reference, time presents a fertile opportunity for imagination.
“Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances we detect; but the harmony results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discourse trajectory
Itinerary consequence
Deciphered destination
Even under a full moon, if the air is clear the stars appear.
“Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.” – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Irresistibly drawn
Difference insistence
Impinge relief
The local and distant interfuse in an open system under the night sky, articulated only through an absolute and ungeneralizable singularity. The immersion of life and matter in the real depends on the force and effect of duration.
“Likes won’t get you diddly in these parts.” – Thomas Middleditch
Accumulated time
Banded display
Ordered color
As ambient conditions deliver temporary winter warming on a clear bright night, aesthetic advantage reaffirms our position on a ball floating through space. So much immediate surface is apparent, hitherto teeming with so much cosmic depth and wonder.
“What the photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.” – Roland Barthes
Splendor hung
Aloft the night
Always moving
By formulating anticipation based on respective patterns, imagination is the cause of knowledge.
“We survive, and with those skills, and in that survival, we create art.” – Tom Wilson