AUTUMN SHADES: An exploration of beauty

IMAGE: Some layered leaves arranged over stones 

Linda: Each season has its own beauty. Many appreciate spring, but fewer recognize autumn's charm.

Ron:   Don't most of us have a far too one-sided view of beauty? There's beauty even in death and decay.

Lis:   (nodding) That's hardly surprising since beauty itself is often marketed as a commercial commodity. 
       Advertisers try to tell you exactly beauty means, insinuating anything different is not beautiful.

Lex:   (pausing) I think there's a mathematics to beauty. Whenever symmetry and order combine with 
       complexity, beauty is a natural consequence.

Lis:   (cynically) Ironically, any obsession with beauty is sort of ugly. Those who overly worry about 
       outward beauty are like cadavers. Too much self-consciousness is never beautiful: real beauty 
       has an innocence that can't be faked.

Ron:   (chuckling) Hmm. I question whether anything on this planet can be called 'innocent'.


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from _Last Poems: Lost Poems_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  An image of some fallen leaves and a discussion about the commodification of beauty.
KEYWORDS:  autumnal beauty, seasonality, commercialization of aesthetics, charm and self-consciousness

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - )
Begun: 2000 in Nagoya, Japan  ✠ Finished: 2022 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}}  

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