Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Beauty is ...


Blog 254:

 
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ... so goes a familiar quote.  Whether or not you agree, it is there for you to find and test.
 

To many mothers,  all begotten children are beautiful, even when physical or psychological deformity starkly exist.  To artists, all endeavors of creative output is beautiful, even the ones that their audience could not decipher.  What we see and interpret with our naked eyes and minds as beautiful belongs only to each one of us.  We see the possibility of architectural beauty in driftwood.  Upon folding and creasing an ordinary piece of paper, we see the potential structure of a familiar object.  With broken pieces of porcelain or glass, one could shape and create an inspirational piece to behold and admire.  Clouds that form on a bright sunny day up in the sky beckon us to see all sorts of familiar and unfamiliar images we daily encounter and rarely dream about. 

 
That we all see beauty in our selfish or generous way holds water.  What about unseen beauty?  How and when do we see or experience it?  Where do we begin to look?  Noting abstract and hidden beauty ... that is the greater challenge for us all!

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