fata morgana

nothing but brush strokes

da

jing guan

surfacing

"A line is a thing that has a practical or purposeful significance just as much as a chair, a fountain, a knife, a book, etc. And in this last example, this thing is employed as a purely pictorial means without those other aspects which it may otherwise possess i.e. for the sake of its pure, iinner sound. If, therefore, a line is freed from the purpose of indicating an object, and itself functions as a thing, its inner sound is not weakened by being forced to play an incidental role, and assunes its full inner power." - Kandinsky

a presence invoked by means of an absence

bright horizon

St.Clair jetty

floating

Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

¬-A E Houseman

dark

"I like using black'...'it's like being in the dark.It is there that I come into contact with emotion, and it is in the dark that I feel my way."
- Roger Kemp 1986

southerly

southeasterly

“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.”
― Haruki Murakami 'Kafka on the Shore'

clusters

"...in this transaction between the subject of sensation and the sensible it cannot be held that one acts while the other suffers the action, or that one confers significance on the other. Apart from the probing of my eye or my hand, and before my body synchronizes with it, the sensible is nothing but a vague beckoning."
- Merleau-Ponty

fragile

'Tian ya hai jiao'- the end of the sky and the corner of the sea

hidge