There is a real need to address beauty in this masters. Continually my work is viewed as being beautiful, but it worries me that much of the process and approach is lost. It is also worth me looking into the ephemeral nature of beauty but also the illusive nature of beauty. Not sure how, but I do realise that I find beauty in [ ] and thats what I capture and create, but why, do I use it to mask something, what is that something. I would say though that I am not scared of beauty and in fact I embrace it, but I do embrace a depth in beauty that is often missing.
A few questions to start:
1. What is beauty?
Beauty is and isn't. It comes and goes it has a life-span that is unpredictable and unstable. Nothing is beautiful by right, nor is anything beautiful not by choice either. Beauty is more than the face of the object or the person, it is complex and layered but also devilishly misunderstood.
2. Why are somethings viewed as beautiful and others not?
Only within us do we know that. Some like spots, others strips. Some are attracted to the inner others the outer. But what makes something beautiful is personal. Is beauty something that moves quickly or is it still.
3. What is the relation of beauty to the textural?
4. How con beauty and narrative effect one another?
Of interest here is the re-occuring critique of films that the cinematography often masks the feeling of the film by being to perfect of clean, that a perfection sterilises the narrative. Not that beauty is perfection, though it is sometimes viewed in that light. This idea of perfection can also lead I think to a position of untouchable and unapproachable.
Contrary to this perspective is that the beauty within the performance Untitled 12.06.05 had a crucial role in that the performance was looking at permanence and the individual. In particular the venerability and loss of the individual through the glutinous pursuit of the individual. When approaching a topic of venerability and permanence I feel that beauty has one of the best set of credentials to help illustrate the these states. Beauty in its self is not permanent, rather it is extremely delicate and transient, it is also very much a personal perspective. In the world of marketing we are told what is beautiful and desired for a period, but this changes, this is open for debate no matter how much people what us to view something as beauty.
Are somethings inherently beautiful, or do we find or place beauty within things?