Thank you for taking on this difficult topic. The popularity of anti-beauty makes no sense to me (I would like to see an essay that explains the attraction of anti-beauty or maybe Craig and Thomas could have a chat about that).
The purpose of my life is to create beauty. I have only met one person who openly acknowledged that his purpose in life was to create beauty (he is a jewelry maker). When I am in the presence of ugliness, I feel ill and turn away. So I do not equate Beauty with being real (beauty resides in reality, but not all of reality is beautiful). In other words, I agree with "Asserted: beauty is the deep longing of mankind." But I don't need to find a way back to beauty because I have chosen on a moment-to-moment basis to surround myself with beauty. Beauty is like a light that I recognize and follow.
"Beauty in art is a finger pointing joyously towards the Real, no matter how subjectively ugly the specific object of interest may be, crying out " There, there it is! The creation of the Uncreated!""
It does feel like one revelation of remembering after another these days, cheers for this a lot of it resonated
Thank you for taking on this difficult topic. The popularity of anti-beauty makes no sense to me (I would like to see an essay that explains the attraction of anti-beauty or maybe Craig and Thomas could have a chat about that).
The purpose of my life is to create beauty. I have only met one person who openly acknowledged that his purpose in life was to create beauty (he is a jewelry maker). When I am in the presence of ugliness, I feel ill and turn away. So I do not equate Beauty with being real (beauty resides in reality, but not all of reality is beautiful). In other words, I agree with "Asserted: beauty is the deep longing of mankind." But I don't need to find a way back to beauty because I have chosen on a moment-to-moment basis to surround myself with beauty. Beauty is like a light that I recognize and follow.
"Beauty in art is a finger pointing joyously towards the Real, no matter how subjectively ugly the specific object of interest may be, crying out " There, there it is! The creation of the Uncreated!""
It does feel like one revelation of remembering after another these days, cheers for this a lot of it resonated