Often I write about surrounding oneself with beauty, but beauty fades, falls to dust and ruin. Its emotion that has the lasting impression, the lasting dent into our living.
“What is essential is invisible to the eye”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Beauty is inspiration, the salve to our everyday. While emotion has longevity: the deepest root. This is intrinsic to creativity, the pairing of beauty and emotion.
It’s imperative that we understand this, how beauty works, and use it to our advantage. Beauty inspires the creative mind and in turn, the way we live, smoothing the edges of our everyday. Beauty can be found within everything, the mind itself is a beautiful thing.
NYC Artist John Sheppard
‘We are in fact the purest reflection of beauty in who we are and our capabilities to create, love and build the future.’
Life is lived fuller with beauty, it gives more meaning and in its execution, purpose. Creating beauty is as innate as the emotion it pulls upon, going as far back as our opposable thumbs. We are in fact the purest reflection of beauty in who we are and our capabilities to create, love and build the future.
Artist Zanele Muholi
The universe itself is in constant creation, so is the earth and like wise, us. It is therefore the creation of beauty that is a natural act of self expression, and in a sense perhaps, self preservation. Beauty is the manifestation of who we are in a much bigger picture: expansive and deep as the universe and its black holes.