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From which it is woven
Understanding aesthetics
As a window into the underlying reality
Ilex-Oscillo-Paragon 75mmf1.9
A very special stand of pines against clearing storm clouds. A bright and revalatory day in Vermont.
I can say one thing with near certainty. There are many images I have shot in the swamps that I will not be able to recreate because chances are I can't find the same subject and place again. And even if I did go to the exact location, the conditions might be vastly different than what I encountered before for me to recognize it. Hence, I often take in the scene and try to ponder the slightly spiritual nature of what I am seeing and experiencing. I took this picture at one moment that I knew meant something exceptional.
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Andy Marvell, What a Marvel
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) was a British born Metaphysical Poet, satirist and politician. The Garden is one of his most celebrated works. I heard it again while listening to an audio book while in the bath the other day. Not as such a metaphysical experience but it was jolly nice.
These portraits of plants, have been made for many different reasons but always for the JOY of it. All of my photographs are daytime, made in city parks and gardens and virtually straight out of the camera with the absolute minimum of post processing.
This on going photographic odyssey that I call TERRA INCOGNITA has helped me notice what is always present in my life if I can make the time to look.
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be
static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in
metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
John Fowles
Another Perspective
LM: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA24/126/129/23
Metaphysics of frequencies
A return to nature as a fluctuating cosmic vision, resonating vibrations where matter is in continuous movement and space does not exist. It is the unifying force of subtle body and energy fields.
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Questions métaphysiques. Pourquoi ici plutôt qu'ailleurs? Combien de temps faut-il pour changer une ampoule? Combien d'anges peuvent danser sur la tête d'une épingle?
Combien de temps vivent les volutes de fumée?
Pas très longtemps, assurément. Sauf lorsqu'on les maintient captives.
Je suis en panne d'inspiration.
On the Grandfather's Bridge in Helsinki.
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"There are necessarily two principles of beings; the one containing the series of beings organized, and finished, the other, of unordered and unfinished beings. That one which is susceptible of being expressed, by speech, and which can be explained, both embraces beings, and determines and organises the non-being.
For every time that it approaches the things of becoming, it orders them, and measures them, and makes them participate in the essence and form of the universal. On the contrary, the series of beings which escape speech and reason, injures ordered things and destroys those which aspire to essence and becoming; whenever it approaches them, it assimilates them to its own nature.
But since there are two principles of things of an opposite character, the one the principle of good, and the other the principle of evil, there are therefore also two reasons, the one of beneficent nature, the other of maleficent nature.
That is why the things that owe their existence to art, and also those which owe it to nature, must above all participate in these two principles; form and substance.
The form is the cause of essence; substance is the substrate which [it] receives the form. Neither can substance alone participate in form, by itself; nor can form by itself apply itself to substance; there must therefore exist another cause which moves the substance of things; and forms them. This cause is primary, as regards substance, and the most excellent of all."
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A lot of great things has happened lately that i suddenly realized i haven't been shooting and posting here at flickr.
I am undergoing a certain kind of hibernation state that compels me to discipline my self and suspend everything else for the sake of some other tremendous things in anticipation. I know this is a difficult stage and somehow the only strength i have is the passion that empowers my will to carry on...
"To the pure finite spirit, Liberty is what it is to the wind and elements -- a power to obey the imperious laws of its nature; a power to act on conditions, emotions and desires would arise, and be preceded, followed, or co-exist with perceptions and judgments in a necessary succession, and with a rapidity which would preclude all comparison, consideration, and determination.
This power is liberty, and is the basis of responsibility. It is simple. The mind on the condition of a body learns the laws of its nature, its activity, their conditions and objects, and thus acquires a power over itself. This is Liberty. Hence there are degrees of liberty. Hence there may be minds that possess no more freedom than the brutes that perish."
On the Grandfather's Bridge in Helsinki.
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A foggy morning in Amsterdam.
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Flannery O’Connor is a metaphysical realist whose philosophical and artistic starting point is not thought or a world of ideas but reality itself, what she calls what-is. O’Connor grounds her narrative art in the visible and invisible reality created by God and knowable to human beings who are composed of visible and invisible components, both body and soul, making the human person a knower, not simply a thinker.
-Understanding the Hillbilly Thomist: The Philosophical Foundations of Flannery O’Connor’s Narrative Art Paperback – August 3, 2023
by Damian Ference