Beauty
A suspicion that the loss of beauty – or even of a language for taking beauty seriously – might lie closer than we often allow to the heart of the trouble that the world is in.
Dougald Hine
https://open.substack.com/pub/dougald/p/taking-beauty-seriously?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=6604l
It is all part of my cunning plan to make adornment, decoration and material beauty a living tradition again amongst everyday people who have lost the confidence to make beauty as they see fit, rather than how they are told. To make beauty freely, rather than allowing the dictates of coolness, influencers or mass-production set a standardised,
... See moreI am way more handy now I find time for radical acts of ridiculous beauty as often as I possibly can
Caroline Ross
The place culture resides is in the extraneous beauty
Caroline Ross
Lack of meaning and lack of beauty manifest together when efficiency rules
Dougald Hine
Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness. Wabi-sabi is ambivalent about separating beauty from non-beauty of ugliness. […] Wabi-sabi suggests that beauty is a dynamic event that occurs between you and something else. Beauty can occur at any moment given the proper circumstances, context or point of view. Beauty is thus an altered state of
... See moreWe humans have energy and we have time and we don't have anything else … so when we spend that money of our time and our energy on love, on making beauty… those are precious places
Caroline Ross
The things you have to do are not interesting because you have to do them, so there is no question
Why do something you didn't have to do IS a question.
All these things that are not the most efficient way you could do something attach meaning, because of the ‘why would you do that?’ that's attached to it
Dougald Hine
https://youtu.be/MjWFZ44Xch4?si=vw
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