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Gonna try to connect my aesthetic tastes—I see some connections between poetry and visuals https://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1245719458263511040
One big discovery for me was that I’m way into light and wind, particularly where wind means the movement of light; think light and leaves, or the particular play of shadows on the human form https://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1245097503193804800
This—light and wind/movement—show up in Van Gogh obviously, but also in Gaudi, which I didn’t realize until it was pointed out! But it’s so clearly there; his stones seem to move and shimmer
But and so check out this thread on Seamus Heaney’s Postscript; it’s about “the wind and the light working off each other”! https://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1196548046533877760
A related fact about what I find beautiful: I love the transformation of the everyday. I love thinking about the complexity behind seemingly simple things, seeing beauty hidden in plain sight in unexpected places
I feel this about certain (video) games, TV series, books
I feel this about certain (video) games, TV series, books
Quick list of things like this: architecture/urban planning (the city seems obvious and then suddenly its art) any good game from chess to Smash Bros (simple rules, endless complexity), any art that takes an old genre or pattern and makes it new (often by loving almost-satire) https://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1245144292844351489
This is what I love about light and wind: they reveal the beauty of their subjects. They reveal that trees are beautiful, that water is brilliant, that hair is mesmerizing
They’re incarnational—they render beautiful by their presence, and reveal that beauty was always there
They’re incarnational—they render beautiful by their presence, and reveal that beauty was always there
This is why I love people too—your attention, turned on them, is like light and wind on a tree: it makes and reveals beauty. When I talk about Naming, this is what I mean—discovering the Van Gogh painting of someone https://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1245449979398959107
I want to see the beauty that is hidden
I think this lies behind my disgust at certain things, too—“dehumanizing”, “useless”, “egregoric” are all aesthetic statements of disgust at things that obscure beauty, things that are the opposite of wind and light or Naming
eg: https://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1204244860687007745
I think this lies behind my disgust at certain things, too—“dehumanizing”, “useless”, “egregoric” are all aesthetic statements of disgust at things that obscure beauty, things that are the opposite of wind and light or Naming
eg: https://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1204244860687007745
This is behind my disgust with certain forms of source criticism: they distract from and obscure the beauty of the texts, deny the cunning brilliance of them in favor of reductive readings. I hate that in my gut and it’s the same hatred I feel toward inhuman bureaucracy https://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1245873575690723328
Anything that gives due weight to complexity, beauty, the status of the world and of art as worthy of attention: I love it with a physical love
Anything that denies that: I will destroy it, because it begs to be destroyed by its implicit denial of its own value as well
Anything that denies that: I will destroy it, because it begs to be destroyed by its implicit denial of its own value as well
This is the continuation of this thread, trying to unite two different threads of my thought; I think my new uniting urge behind my stuff is the love of things being revealed to be beautiful—ie complex, coherent, worthy of love and awe
