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
Visual syntax
Contingent nature
Temporal entity
The logic of aesthetic experience is the syntax of the image.
“The most perfect logic to be found is in the play of imagination. “ – Charles Sanders Peirce
Embrace fluidity
Space of relations
State of encounter
The liquid form, with its malleable, ephemeral quality, becomes a metaphor for the fluidity of being itself.
“The artist no longer confronts a raw material, but already coded objects.” – Nicolas Bourriaud
Surrounding mist
Shroud of indeterminate depth
Obscures the horizon
A solitary figure confronts the vast indifference of the universe, a microcosm of our own existential predicament.
“Great power or strength is one of the characteristics of the sublime.” – Edmund Burke
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
Into the deeper
More subtle
Realms of existence
The explicate order, the world of manifest appearances, is merely a projection, a slice, a cross-section of this deeper, more fundamental reality – the implicate order.
“Ultimately, the entire universe has to be understood as a single undivided whole; in which analysis into separately and independently existent parts has no fundamental status.” – David Bohm
Skeletal structure
Physical phenomenon
Metaphysical presence
These lines, both literal and implied, carve out the visual space.
“The thought, in itself immaterial, clothes itself in the material garment of language and thereby becomes comprehensible to us.” – Gottlob Frege
Urban tableau
Power operates
Visual discourse
The image invites us to consider how power operates through the visual, how it shapes our perception of the world, and how it inscribes itself upon our bodies and our minds.
“The history which bears and determines us has the form of a war.” – Michel Foucault
Ephemeral quality
A promise
A threat
Perhaps it is enough that the promise exists, a silent testament to the human desire for recognition, however fleeting.
“All watched over by machines of loving grace.” – Richard Brautigan
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