Category: aesthetics
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Dignity, a Shape
Images contain thoughts. We need images to think. Some images have more vocal thoughts than others. While I drew this a question kept resurfacing: could dignity be contained in a shape, in form alone? There is something dignified about inner proportion and balance. Of course! Nature has dignity. Trees, vegetables, seashells, skeletons: they do not…
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Drawing Parted Clouds with Watercolor Pencils in my Sketchbook
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Personification to Connect Us to Our Environment
Does it seem a farce to personify the world around us? The non-person world is going on all the time, just doing its myriad things. We share the same time and space coordinates as these non-person entities around us. We even share significant amounts of DNA with many of the organisms surrounding us. And yet,…
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Annie Dillard and Thomas Merton on Pushing Passed “Good Enough”
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Born into a system of norms set strategically before us, it’s always surprising to be reminded that we are still ultimately at the helm of this process of what we accomplish and what we choose to bring into being.
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Barnett Newman on the Aesthetic Roots of Humanity
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“Man’s hand traced the stick through the mud to make a line before he learned to throw the stick as a javelin.” “Undoubtedly the first man was an artist,” begins a remarkable little speculative essay written in 1947 by Barnett Newman. It proposes that the aesthetic act of wonder precedes the social and utilitarian acts…