TRANSITION 3 (1)

The enclosed information may appear difficult to comprehend because the man-made environments are mainly made up of disconnected elements. Unfortunately we use the anything goes approach for most of the projects: Small next to large or next to medium or very large next to very small, etc. The intermediaries are mainly absent, forcing the thought process to look for the pieces which simplify the passage from horizontal to vertical at 90degrees, etc. More than thirty years of research were necessary in order to clarify that TRANSITION between the elements (sounds included…) is a KEY communicative pillar.

The walking exercises of connecting images 61 D (2000 - ) and 62 D (2008 - ) provided enough visual experience to understand the following: The visual organization found in the natural world is very precise. Nature provides the intermediaries used to ease the passage from horizontal to vertical and vice versa, etc. These connecting pieces or elements are almost instantaneously recognized by the thought process, enabling it to spend some time cleaning its memory bank in order to be able to make decisions more effectively. Theory: The more connected the visual information, the more freedom there is to explore.

The enclosed photographs are incomplete and their purpose is to document this Transition. They describe an organization of trees around a lake and were taken between the years 2005-10.
These trees are mainly a mixture of conifers, fir /spruce… (green = alive, gray = dead and or destroyed by beetles) and of tamaracks {green (summer) yellow/orange (autumn) and gray/orange (winter)}. The use of photographs instead of handmade images (drawings or paintings) to describe this information proves that his transition truly exists. It is composed of four groves of tamaracks (large/east - medium - small - large/north and 3 tree connectors). During the fall, the green tamaracks turn yellow orange. Their new color next to the greens eases the understanding of the visual transition between the elements, in this case tamaracks to firs. This mega Transition demonstrates that what may appear to be side by side elements from a distance, is in fact a well prepared blend or a respect for the other, this in order to keep the cerebral activities low or normal. 

For more information, please view Transition and connecting images 61, 62.

The arrows indicate the place where the photograph was taken. 

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M (medium)  S (small) 	L (large) north	L (large) east	
LAKE (view from above, approximate)		elevation 821 meters	61 meters =

west  	south 	north 	east

Two tree connectors
One tree connector   

This lake is mainly surrounded by conifers (fir /spruce, section 1, 2) a large portion of which were logged except for close to the edge of the lake. Most of the trees of section 3 were destroyed by the beetles. The tamaracks are for the time being the main residents and their organization is the subject of Transition 3. This Transition is presently made up of four groves (large/east - medium - small - large/north) and 3 connector trees (explanations in 3b).

L east

Passage or Transition from fir /spruce trees (green) to tamaracks (yellow/orange) = low level of cerebral activities - visually speaking - because of the following: 1) the organization of the tamaracks in L east = Passage from large (left) to mainly small (right),
2) The organization of the tamaracks in M = Passage from small (left) to large (right) = reversed L east = excellent connection between the two = similar to an horizontal letter V, when seen on the other side of the lake,
3) Viewed from this angle, the grove S resembles the letter V (not to take into account the leaf trees in the background/above or higher) but less horizontal than L east combined with M, 
4) Highs and lows of these three groves prepare the resemblance of a moving Aquarius symbol found in L north (combination of three reversed V), minimal explanations further to the right.  

M	  S

Background = section 3
Passage from small to large (height of the trees), due to the wind, the ground, water, etc. The trees work together in order to survive. This transition can be compared to a sphere (see 3 b). The horizontal circle = large grove to small grove and back to large, the vertical circle = the gradual growth of the trees inside the groves (short near the lake to higher towards the interior) seen in the above and the following images.  

L north

Passage or Transition from fir /spruce (green) to larches (yellow/orange) = low level of cerebral activities - visually speaking - because of the connecting elements.
Highs and lows resembling a moving Aquarius symbol depend on the light, season…

Front view (above), side view (the linear diagram to the right/above), the same applies for the majority of the orchards (images to the right).

This transition clearly demonstrates that the thought process expects to be surrounded by this facility to move from an element to another (forms/trees, color, light, etc) from more than just one angle. Sensory information that has survived time reflects this: Bach, Beethoven, Escher, La Tour, Rembrandt, etc 

Front view = image/above 
Partial side view = image/bottom

A tamarack used as a link to the others.
Viewed from this angle, we can see the obvious facility of movement from Small to Large or Short to High. The same applies for the great majority of the groves.
The following images = bottom left ( side view) and right (front view).

TRANSITION 3 (2)

Continuity of 3 (1)
Pre requisite: Nature, unified music and Tr 3 (1).
The majority of the panoramic images at the bottom (middle of autumn, yellow/orange) are closer to scale than the ones on top (the end of autumn, orange).
The arrows indicate the place where the photograph was taken.
For more information, please view Transition and connecting images 61, 62.
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Connecting tree
The tamarack on the right is a visual preparation or connection with the others. Nature teaches us that when there is a new kind of trees that appears among another species for various reasons (the ground, the amount of light, etc), those trees multiply and the original species is reduced, but the transformation is gradual. This tamarack reminds us that others are nearby. The same applies with the two others near the end. The man made visual information has to duplicate this, in order to keep the cerebral activities low or normal. 

M  S	L north	L east	
LAKE (view from above, approximate)	61 meters =		elevation 821 m
Two tree connectors	one tree connector   

This mega Transition is made up of four groves of tamarack (large/east - medium - small - large/north and 3 tree connectors). 

L east 	M	S	L north

Connecting trees (continuity of the tamaracks and the visual information)

Seen from a distance the green of the fir /spruce trees next to the yellow/orange tamaracks appear to be almost side by side. The preparation of this transition from one color to another is an example of precise visual communication in order to have the cerebral activities remain normal, approximate scale.
L east 	M	S	L north

There is a small house in a stage of deterioration at this place (linear circle) surrounded by fir /spruce trees and in the vicinity it is possible to observe all the groves of tamaracks around the lake. 

View of the sphere, approximate

The linear drawing (blue/green) on the diagram to the right contains a small circle (visual analysis from all the angles – L east, M, S, the connectors, L north). This suggestion is to help to experience more deeply the transition from small to large (the rowing from L east to L north = large and the rowing of the small circle = small, the transition between the two is the exercise), more information to the right.
       
L east M	S	L north	 two tree connectors	 one tree connector   
61 meters = approximate
Arrivals (walk or canoe/boat) 	

Accessing possibilities: During the winter season one can access this area with snowshoes or skis (no engine = noise). The gray/red/brown groves are surrounded by blue (sky) /white (snow) /green (fir /spruce trees), for example the image to the right/above. These tamaracks grow in marshes and due to the difficulty to walk inside the groves between April and November; it is preferable to visit them in boats/canoes (oars). Personally, I have not experienced it on water yet.
The linear drawing (blue/green) on the lake is conceived for a first time approach in order to avoid seeing the northern grove before the others, because of this rare natural transition: 1) Experience the inside of L east, 2) view of distant S, 3) view of the tree connector, 4) view of distant M, 5) closer experience of M and S, 6) view of the 2 trees connectors and 7) approach to L north. 

TRANSITION 3 (3a)
The MARRIAGE of the CURVE with the almost straight line.

Pre requisite: Nature, unified music and Tr 3 (1, 2).

The use of photographs instead of handmade images (drawings or paintings) aims to prove that this Transition is real. 

The arrows indicate the place where the photographs were taken.

For more information, please view Transition, Curve versus straight line and connecting images 61, 62.
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In the natural world one will not find a perfect straight line. The live species are flexible for many reasons, motion, resistance to the wind, etc. In the image to the right we can see that the weight of snow combined with the wind rounded the forms, facilitating the visual communication even more (marriage of the curve with the almost straight line). 

The left diagram is an approximation that describes the thought process when analyzing the meeting of two lines or planes. The white curve reflects the meeting of the horizontal with the vertical. In the right image, the while lines reflect than in general their meeting is rarely below a 90 degree angle. 

Below: Three examples that let the thought process slides from one element to another.

The above diagram is an approximation that describes what the thought process has to analyze when confronted with the meeting of two lines or forms or planes at right angle. The great majority of the man-made world reflects the straight line. We have yet to evaluate the psychological effect of this visual transition surrounded by elements that hardly ever connect between themselves. 

Analysis of  90 degrees angles: Being unable to find any universal references = having to soften the passage from the horizontal to the vertical plane requires an indefinite number of brain activities that are lost = very limited access to personal and or global solutions. The square forms in the image to the left symbolize buildings, one of the many misunderstood natural examples when it comes to visual communication. Theory: When the straight line is accompanied by a curve, however minimal the curve is, there is more room for exploration

Above = tree connector, a tamarack surrounded by fir trees
image to the right: left side (fir trees), right side (tamaracks), left background gradual mixture of the two.

TRANSITION 3 (3b, c)

Pre requisite: Nature, unified music and Tr 3 (1, 2, 3a).

3b: Solo images 
3c: Solo and panoramic images 

TRANSITION 3 (4)

ASYMMETRY

Pre requisite: Nature, unified music and Tr 3 (1, 2, 3).
The majority of the photographs were taken in the same area as Transition 3, and the more asymmetrical trees in the second part, at a higher altitude.
For more information, please view Transition and connecting images 61, 62.
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Visually speaking, the tamaracks that grow at low altitude (left images) are more asymmetrical than trees in general (images in the center). They differ according to the ground, the temperature, etc for more information on this; please seek advice from the experts in biology. From personal experience, the tamaracks at high-altitude (known as larches, right images) seem to be more asymmetrical than the others.

The very great majority of the man-made objects are symmetrical. If this is to facilitate their production, should it be the same when it comes to their visual comprehension?
Theory: The thought process, having to analyze only one on the two sides of a symmetrical object, can proceed from an object to another more quickly than with asymmetrical objects. Being mainly surrounded with non connecting symmetrical objects = high level of useless brain activities and very limited access to personal and or global solutions.

Above image = regular fir trees
The six following images: 
1) Foreground = regular fir tree (green), middle and background = tamaracks (green). 
2) Foreground = regular fir tree (green), middle ground = tamaracks (yellow/orange), background = regular fir trees (green). 
3) Foreground = regular fir tree (green), middle and background = tamaracks (green and yellow/orange). 
4) Foreground and middle ground = tamaracks (green and yellow/orange) and background = regular fir tree (green). 
5) Middle ground = tamaracks (green and yellow/orange), background = regular fir tree (green).
6) Tamaracks (green).

The above image and the following ones: Green = regular fir tree, yellow/orange = tamaracks.

This area is partially explained in connecting image 56.

The seven images of this part are located at an altitude between 1500-2300 meters. Some people referred these trees as larches (high altitude) instead of tamaracks (low altitude). The quality of the photographs (1990s) is limited, however  they aim at showing exceptionally asymmetrical trees. 

Having experienced the organization of the great majority of the groves of larches and several of the tamaracks in western Canada and the United States since 1986, I must admit that they played an important role in the clarification of the following discoveries: The Curve, Expansionist and Parallel Color ©, TRANSITION…
Lines = approximate

TRANSITION 3 (5)

FOUR SEASONS and LIGHT REFLECTION
Pre requisite: Nature, unified music and Tr 3 (1, 2, 3, 4).

The majority of the photographs were taken in L east and the arrow indicates the place where the photograph was taken.

For more information, please view Transition and connecting images 61, 62.

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In the diagram above, the distance between the rectangles symbolizes time and the changing colors of the seasons. In general, any major change of color which relates to the static or quasi static forms in the natural world is slow = visual sensory information = normal cerebral activities = possibility for improvement.

In the lower diagrams, the distance between the rectangles symbolizes time, ?  -2010. The present man-made world does not take into account or is not aware of the importance of this visual transition, whether it is for static or moving elements (locomotion, etc) = visual sensory information = high level of useless brain activities not being able to find a universal reference = great difficulty to improve anything that is durable.

Approximate: Above; transition of the light reflected on the natural elements during the seasons =
highly fluid, no word can describe its precision.
Below; transition of the light reflected on the man-made elements during the seasons = they are not connecting = 90 degrees transition = confusion, a large part of the manufactured world and its visual counterpart do not take into account or are unaware of the importance to prepare the passage from dark to light, etc. 

Humanity can be compared to a tree. If a branch or a needle or a leaf is affected positively or negatively, the whole tree feels it. 
Theory: Broken sensory information prevents us from being conscious of the joy or the suffering of others.

TRANSITION 3 (6a)

COLOR ORGANIZATION

Pre requisite: Nature, unified music and Tr 3 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

The arrows indicate the place where the photograph was taken and the semi circles, the panoramic photo.

For more information, please view Transition and connecting images 61, 62.

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M  	S		L north		L east	
LAKE (view from above, approximate)	61 meters =		elevation 821 meters

The enclosed information is an exceptional example of the required preparation to make the color red COMMUNICATIVE (adequate cerebral activities). In early Fall, while the tamaracks begin to change from green to yellow, the shrubs become red. This red is the equivalent of a nuance made of textured ajourés and transparency. It complements the green/yellow/ocre/blue/gray… 

This color simplification is mainly absent in this man-made world which takes every available short cuts like in the small image on the left. For more information on this, please view the COMPARISONS.

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