absence beauty

This square celebrates the clothes worn and the beauty found in the worst moments. Such beauty is intense because of its contrast with its surroundings. Absence beauty, or baseline beauty, reveals that beauty and life are inextricably connected. This beauty cannot be bought or forced.

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In these journals, Guibert, who is dying from AIDS, writes about sex, love, and taboo subjects. He shows that there is beauty in pain and sickness, not only as a by-product of pain and sickness.

The Absence of Beauty

This article that I wrote for the blog Fashion Research Forum maps out my thoughts on this subject.

Philosophy and spirituality of beauty and ugliness. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite. Revultion is a response to the unfamiliar...

This article inspired me to think about absence- by examining absence one can better understand what is.