To be outside a set or selection. This can be either positive or negative for the object or person outside. However, this state helps define the entity and the other group.

To be close to something or someone physically, mentally, or philosophically. The concrete or abstract proximity of two objects or people creates likeness and comparison, which helps to define both.

To exist without or against the support or acknowledgement of another entity. This condition makes the subject opposed or outside the influence of someone or something.

Move beneath or below an object or space to support, subvert, or subject. This relationship may suggest being controlled, but it may just be that it is in control.

To arrive upon an object for some advantage. Surmounting this, the environment or opportunity changes, providing a new vantage.

To move through and beyond a space or time, affecting the one progressing forward but the space or time behind remains effectively unaltered.

The knowledge that something or someone is unable to be present with some other. This defines the state of being, where the description is what is not, not what is.

A gentle, deep blue covers the flowing length of woven, artificial fabric. Like seats, the posts support the bowing, liquid-like form of the covering. Within, the occupants wade through the dimness that shelters beneath the covering. Light seeps in through the pores of the fabric and jumps up from the ground surface where the current… Continue reading Draped

The small shed had a green roof and a creamy gray facade. The corrugated metal siding looked pretty good for being over twenty years old. There were a few dings from equipment banging the siding and the occassional strike from a thrown rock or the lumbering neighbor’s dog. Pine straw littered the edges of the… Continue reading Gentle Use

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