Aesthetic bereavement

"Live and create. Live life to the point of tears." - Albert Camus

Why do we cry when we see and experience art and beauty?  Perhaps it's the fact that, in representation, art and beauty, point to the ideal, hints at the exception to our everyday life, allows us to reach to the full potential of our being.  There is a deep, wrenching poignancy to the beautiful, to the art that shows us the vulnerability of ourselves and our world.  When you witness an architectural form, a painting, a landscape, a spectrum of colors, the ineffable in words, you enter into an altered state of consciousness; an extraordinary moment of poetry and grace and awe....imagine walking into the Sistine Chapel and looking up at that ceiling....it's breathtaking, or a Gothic cathedral where the light coming through the stained glass windows is like the sunlight filtering through the trees....memory, recognition, transcendent understanding....

Go chase beauty today....I am....