TRANSITION 6 (KEY clarification)

The following discovery became clear while hiking the Northern Cascades in Washington State, in September 2012. 

In the natural world, BLENDS serve as connectors to the opposed HARD EDGED elements. The ease to connect these oppositions is so precise that we are unaware of its existence unless we spend a great amount of time surrounded by nature or unified sensory information.

In the manufactured world, it is rare to find hard edged forms that include the transition between the oppositions. Shortcuts (acute hard edges) are almost always used in advertising, politics, sports... resulting in a very large amount of energy unconsciously wasted trying to find the missing links. Theory: By not taking into account this simple natural organization, the manufactured world saps an enormous amount of energy...

The following files are not accompanied by written explanations, they are conceived for a visual reading. It is recommended to view them more than once while listening to unified music (high level of connecting sounds that can help to concentrate...). They are also meant to be viewed in progression, as each file evolved from the previous ones, at the exception of Tr6-1-nuagesClouds that was conceived after Tr6-7-mtn. 
The continuity between these files was designed for a better understanding of this KEY discovery. It is also recommended to view transition 5 before 6.

The files in transition 6 can all be printed, internet quality. The accompanying word file.rtf  (T En 2)
The purpose of the enclosed photographs is to document this transition. For more information, please view Transition 2 (3b). To be viewed on a screen (1000 pixels or more) in width.

Transition 6-1 (prepared hard edged elements): Continuity of transition 5, natural environments (clouds - water - tamaracks - mountains...) season summer, low and high altitude. VISUAL EXPLANATIONS and exercises.

Transition 6-2 (prepared hard edged elements): Natural environments (mushrooms - seeds...). VISUAL EXPLANATIONS and exercises.

Transition 6-3 (prepared hard edged elements): Natural environments (barks - rocks - mushrooms - feathers...) season summer. VISUAL EXPLANATIONS and exercises.

Transition 6-4 (prepared hard edged elements): Natural environments (water - snow - ice - butterfly...) seasons summer, winter, spring, low altitude. VISUAL EXPLANATIONS and exercises.

Transition 6-5 (prepared hard edged elements): Natural environments (snow - ice - leaf and needle trees...) seasons spring, winter, summer, fall, low altitude. VISUAL EXPLANATIONS and exercises.

Transition 6-6 (prepared hard edged elements): Natural environments (leaf and needle trees, mountains...) seasons fall, summer, low and high altitude. MINIMAL VISUAL EXPLANATIONS.

Transition 6-7 (prepared hard edged elements): Natural environments (mountains - needle trees...) seasons summer, fall, high altitude. VISUAL EXPLANATIONS and exercises.

Transition 6-8 (prepared hard edged elements): Natural environments (mountains - leaf and needle trees...) seasons fall, summer, high and low altitude. Regular color photography (12) and infrared black & white (7). MINIMAL VISUAL EXPLANATIONS.

Transition 6-9 (prepared hard edged elements): Natural environments (barks, rocks, waterfalls, mountains, lakes, flowers...) seasons summer, spring, winter, low and high altitude. VISUAL EXPLANATIONS and exercises.

Transition 6-10 (prepared hard edged elements): Natural environments (ocean - river - water pond - plants - geese...) seasons summer, fall, low altitude. VISUAL EXPLANATIONS and exercises.

For those who would like some images part of transition 6 (1-10). This non compressed ZIP file contains 28 JPEGs (26 solo and 2 panoramic). The originals (raw+jpeg) were reduced to 1200 pixels, either height or width, except for the two panoramic files (900x2709, 900x3512), quality 11/12.							1200 either height or width

The contact sheet.					600x800

Transition 7: Natural forms and color, spring 2014.  

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