{"id":571,"date":"2023-12-03T20:31:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T19:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/?p=571"},"modified":"2023-12-08T15:54:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T14:54:12","slug":"on-finding-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/on-finding-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"on finding beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>On my last trip from London to Berlin a woman sat in the seat across the aisle from me. She was young, tall, thin, had long hair and a symmetric face. In other words, she had all the qualities of a top <a href=\"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/blow-up\/\">model<\/a>. I started daydreaming: What if I shoot with her, then my pictures would be published in these high <a href=\"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/about-fashion-photography\/\">fashion<\/a> magazines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It became clear to me very quickly that this would not happen. But it also got me wondering about the concept of beauty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/639c3dc4b5e0b10010db570c\/656cd3857f441e0012694a95\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80px\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beauty is hard to locate&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>From ancient times philosophers struggled to define beauty. It seems like there are some objective qualities that makes a piece beautiful. At the same to time beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the western tradition balance in order and symmetry is perceived as beautiful, whereas the Japanese tradition of wabi-sabi asymmetry and naturalness is considered as beautiful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beauty seems to be cultural conditioned taste that also changes over time. Baroque&#8217;s ideal of beauty differs a lot from the ideal of today&#8217;s beaty and fashion industry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, we may argue that objective beauty doesn&#8217;t exist. Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. What&#8217;s beautiful to one might not be to another. I&#8217;ve noticed that my perception of beauty differs from the high fashion standards that often dominate the industry. In today&#8217;s world that becomes more and more fractured a diverse mix of different beauty concepts coexists. Besides that, the creative expression of one&#8217;s individuality and self-became more important than conforming to societal norms Which I think is generally a good thing. But if beauty is solely subjective a pleasurable experience that differs from person to person \u2013 how can it be more than just an arbitrary value?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The power of beauty&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to paint incorrectly, so my untruth becomes more truthful than the literal truth.\u201d &#8211; Vincent van Gogh.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems like there is an inherent truth in beauty. Something that goes beyond the appearance and connects to an underlying experience.&nbsp; When I create, I am on a quest chasing something that is larger than the sum of all parts, something of ultimate significance that gives my work a quality that transcends the moment and connects us to a spiritual dimension, a cause that makes us to become the best version of ourselves.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And sometimes I create just for the sake of creating, because of the way the act of creating makes me feel the inner and deep joy when I noticed that I have created something beautiful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploring the Depths of Beauty: From High Fashion Standards to Personal Perceptions &#8211; Reflecting on the subjective nature of beauty, cultural influences, and the power it holds beyond appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conscious-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesszenlife.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}