3 July 2023 – Abstract concepts, translated for us into physical reality by everyday objects.

It all starts with this H-Frame.

I look at the way it pivots the alley intersection…

and I see a 45° angle.

Once I reach False Creek and start wandering the Olympic Village area, I realize my eyes are still firmly in translation mode.

Here at patio’s edge, for example: a 90° angle / right angle (with a sine curve thrown in)…

and, here in the plaza, the full 360° — a triumphant Coast Salish circle on the City’s classiest storm cover (thank you Susan Point & daughter Kathy Carroll).

Parallel lines beside me (with a sweep of 45° plus hook for company)…

a cube in the playground behind me…

and, out there in front of me, a floating X and Y axis. (Plus dog.)

More fancifully, here a teardrop…

there a wavelength (wave + length, allow me my pun)…

and a whole world of reflection/refraction dancing around that rusty old starburst beneath the pedestrian bridge.

I squint, not at these curves but between them — and then, as a result of what I see, reassess the curves. They are…

framework.

Framework again, in the alley as I head for home.

But “framework” is just the start of it.

A whole litany of concepts within and around the frame: spherical, reflective, convex, circular…

also horizontal, vertical, parallel…