A reason I like it is because it does not have a focal point. It doesn't, right?
On 1/28/11, William Conger <[email protected]> wrote: > What's aesthetic to you? The big net that enables people to grow crops of > fish > in filthy, crammed surroundings, just to maximize their numbers and make it > easier to harvest them; to contradict nature? Or is it the blue cast, that > dreamy soft color. Or is it the combination of the image of capture, > protection, nurturing as a metaphor of infant nurturing at mama's breast? > Or is > it the geometry of the net itself, repetitive, unitary, an underwater > geodesic > structure --proven to be the most durable type of structure against outside > pressures, winds, above water, currents below, all massaging the the human > thirst for power over nature, the elimination of the sublime, the conquest > of > the unknowable by the forces of reason? Or does the scene remind you of > some > personal experience you cherish? Does it make you want to hold your breath > as > if to heighten the memory of underwater swimming as a kid? You can't get by > with > simply declaring an aesthetic experience and expect others to get it. You > gotta > do more, Mr. Berg. So much more. > > It's one thing to experience the sudden, involuntary, aesthetic sensation; > it's > another thing altogether to sustain it in contemplation or recollection. > For > that we need words, images and metaphor. But none of that matters to you. > You > like to ask leading questions, the sort of questions that reveal your > unreasoned > answers. Tragic banality and intellectual fakery. Worse, even: Like the > burlesque queen who swished and twirled but never dropped that last veil. > wc > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: joseph berg <[email protected]> > To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, January 27, 2011 10:32:57 PM > Subject: Aesthetic photo? > > Am I the only one who finds this photo of an underwater fish farm > mesmerizingly aesthetic?: > > http://www.staradvertiser.com/multimedia/photo_galleries/viewer?galID=107644523
