I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of easy beauty. Flower
pictures, beach scenes, barns. You know what I mean. They are comfortable and
undemanding, cute and colorful. Eventually though they disappear into the walls
or the furniture or their cuteness wears thin. They evaporate.
I’m also tired of easy beauty in adverting. Have a few
seconds? That’s all they want or need. They’re filled with pretty people in
pretty houses. They are young and beautiful in stylish bars having the time of
their lives.
I’m tired of the easy beauty of sun-drenched spaces occupied
by seniors in medicine commercials who in their ecstatic joyfulness fail to
hear the side effects that will likely kill them.
Yes, I’m tired of the easy beauty whose emptiness washes
over us daily. I want images that are the poetry of the visual language. I want
images that stay fresh and keep asking questions. I want images that won’t let
go of me. I want images that make me work.
I want beauty that is tough on me. How about you?
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