Space interval
Continuity divergence
Surface cleft
Thermal punctuation is here situated on the edge of a hot spring pool, as extreme conditions steam in the sunshine on a winter morning. An artistic aesthetic response depends on how deeply guidance is gained through experience.
“Somber Yellowstone Park and its colored hot springs, baby geysers, rainbows of bubbling mud – symbols of my passion.” – Vladimir Nabokov
Angular distance
Diffuse illumination
Chronological possibilities
As a delicate veil of indistinct haze elevates, states of being in the present are manifest as existential evens that cut across time polarities.
“Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.” – John Ruskin
Continual energy
Capacity for renewal
Trust the current
With constant synchronicity, wild rivers dance to their own melody, punctuating the harmony of existence. Some earthly phenomena remain eternally fascinating.
“The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us.” – John Muir
Precipitous rhyolite cliffs
Impressive cascade
Warm geothermal river
A exhilarating winter overlook into the scenic river of Firehole canyon inspires admiration at sunrise.
“Following down the river bank through a deep cañon of volcanic rocks, in many places broken in huge fragments, we presently came to rapids, having a fall of perhaps 40 feet in a half mile.” – Gustavus C. Doane
Cold shades
Natural resources
Penetrate deeply
Coping with adverse climatic conditions offers capacious experiential reward, as adventures of the spirit coincide with seasonal adjustment.
“Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.” – Sinclair Lewis
Glossy ribbon
Always different
Meandering freely
A river, a mountain, and the solar star combine in an enchanting, shifting, vital embodiment of planetary existence as a self-correcting equilibrium.
“That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.” – Hermann Hesse
Calm dawn
Near the boundaries
Water heat
Apparent symptoms of Yellowstone’s volcanic underbelly settle over the morning landscape. The next catastrophic eruption could occur at anytime.
“Heat and volcanic gases from slowly cooling magma rise and warm the dense salty water that occupies fractured rocks above the Yellowstone magma chamber.” – Jake Lowenstern
Existence coherence
Particular singularity
Away from crowds
Wilderness is an illusory romantic paradigm. Remnants of small undeveloped areas are still available for experience, although true wilderness is long gone.
“Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.” – Leon Trotsky
Once again
Inevitably vital
Leave a mark
Over time, ample evidence appears in the “caldera” indicating stored heat and energy. Chemical elements present in geothermal mud renders the soil relatively acidic due to thermophile bacteria consuming sulfur and creating sulfuric acid, causing even further surrounding rock disaggregation.
“The park delivers big when it comes to providing visitors with views of these strange, mysterious, odd-smelling steaming vents and spouting features.” – Tori Peglar
Deeply textured
By all appearances
Splendiferously effulgent
Subjective perspective enlightens the appearance coherence of existential phenomena. The winter’s atmosphere is especially clear, etching light contours into memory plenums facilitating sympathetic awareness promulgation.
“The literature of illumination reveals this above all: although it comes to those who wait for it, it is always, even to the most practiced and adept, a gift and a total surprise.” – Annie Dillard