Cropping visions
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It’s not that I like ugly things. I feel that erasing the ugly from my field of vision is wrong. One can recognize beauty also by contrasts and contacts with ugliness. Also, something doesn’t have to be beautiful to be interesting or to offer something to your soul. Beauty can be a very shallow thing when it’s an end in itself, while ugliness always hides some significance to a certain degree, even when it’s not contemplated in its original intentions. Squinting the eyes to leave unpleasantness out is what on average one usually finds more natural, especially given our submerged visual culture. A distracted stare tends to stop only when senses are pampered to the excess. Bloated brains are hungry for more excess and decadence. Once it starts how can it be stopped? I don’t understand whoever tries to smother life in a cloud of smoky beauty that doesn’t say anything at all, just for the effect, just for the temporary sating; I don’t understand those trying to give ugliness the same status of beauty with lots of conceptual crap either. There’s no beauty in ugliness, but there’s a meaning to it, an urgency, an importance. Ugliness talks and threatens. It says more to us about the existent than beauty. It’s more connected with the present moment. Why denying it confusing notions and concepts?