Beauty
Beauty exists everywhere – literally.
Sometimes, and often, it will grab you by the eyes, slap you around the face and yell “Look at Me! Can you see It? Can you taste It? I am Beauty”!
Yes, Beauty, I see you. We all do, when we care to look. We experience that quick, short inhalation of you. That sublime feeling. That wonder. No matter if you are clichéd. No matter if you are an old warhorse. You set the benchmark – stamp the landmark on our minds forever.
Then there is Beauty’s younger sister. She hides away and is rarely seen. It takes perseverance, dedication – sometimes, hard work, to see this ‘other’ Beauty. She can hide under rocks oblivious to her surrounds. She is in a smile, a wrinkle, even a thought. She can live in lines and angles, curves and shades – she is herself, in fact, a shade. But when we discover her – oh, that feeling is truly living. When we experience this Beauty, we may feel larger then we are, for we have discovered something special, and maybe even unique. Those deeper thinkers may feel far smaller then their spiritual dimensions. They may feel humbled. And by doing so, they are honouring all the little things that makes life the wonderful experience it is.
And yet, too often, they are blind to the Mother of all Beauty.
This beauty is the mother lode. Without this beauty, none other could exist. Do you know it? I think you do. This is the Beauty that is the Searcher. It is us, all of us, who search for the special moment or place, whether consciously or not. This in itself is what makes life worth living. The Search for Beauty.
Nothing else matters.
Dedicated to all the contributors of Redbubble.
Thank you for the experience.
Suzanne German
Wow Mark…nice to read your stuff! yes I think there is a veritable ‘family’ of beauty out there and inside all of us…I agree with you…just look at all the amazing artwork on this website….where are the thoughts, inspirations, motivation and love of it all coming from?....as you point out…from the ‘searcher’...for beauty…
for me I would add to that list…excitement, wonderment, newness, adventure, vibrancy….that ‘hit’ that keeps us ‘high’ on life and all it is able to offer..and, if and when we are lucky enough, for us to experience and hold.
now..back to your notion of the ‘mother’....mmm…..(joking!!! not being freudian at all!!!!!!)
Suzanne
Brett Foster
Here, here!
marieancolie
Mark ?? I agree with you, and you posted this almost as the same time I was posting “mermaid in heavens”.
Beauty can be found everywhere at any time in any place, in every subject and every one, human, animal, vegetal, .....
Thank you for the dedication to all contributors of RB
I wish you a very nice week.
marie
Vonnie Murfin
I agree that beauty is everywhere. i like what you wrote. I did a poem on beauty
Mark German
It’s not the kind of thing I would general write up and display in public – not that I have a problem with doing that. I was overwhelmed at the explosion of talent on this site and couldn’t get it out of my mind, so there :)
Suzanne German
we luv ya marky!
lanced200
Mark – love your philosphy re photography and art…......
I either Like it or I don’t.
Perfect.
idletimeart
Mark, thanks for the positive response to my work. You can view more of it on my website at: www.idletimeart.com .
Sarah Moore
Hey Mark – “I like it or I don’t” is kind of my philosophy in life there is no sitting on the fence for me!
Beauty is a similar concept I guess – everyone has a different take on what is beautiful. I too have been in awe of the talent on this site and was a little overwhelmed at first, but now am enjoying checking out the art and contributing to it!
eponavisions
i so wish that i could write with this magnificent voice. i guess the only work that i have not liked is the pop,flop and fizzles of sixties, yes an old hippie who traveled the world and seven seas, and i could see, sketch, be free. i am now almost 53, a winner of cancer, and i truly believe it was the artist eye of being able to still the fears, and see it going and gone. yes i lost little hair, was living in extremely verbally abusive relationship. stayed for all the wrong reasons. i am just now getting my artist hands back, mind came slowly, away now 6 months, and yes i do journal and write poetry. make jewelry and more. you inspired me so with your words, for you see and like or dont. for years i know now just reading the words that i was desperate to like what i did not. chemo makes ones mind a little askew. and that saying was so true for me a cliche’ of all the things i miss the most, is my mind. it took two years for that fog to clear to see that somehow i could not hate me anymore, and yes again your words. i cannot describe what this means to me. i have printed it out, for it will be always in the front of my journal, to remind me that i either like it or i dont. and thats just ok, and if i feel this way and someone dissrects me not to own it like a badge. thank you. i am a newby, trying desperately to download work on my vista, and i have it somewhat figured out, yet the programs make it small, i broke a code that even my daughter who works as civilian for a.f.b. and a genius on computers, this was one she could not do. when i gave up, then starting playing around, not being so serious, i uploaded and it said for sale. yea. yet i do not know why pix are so small in portfolio. i will get there i am sure, for i am a winner. just not be serious and drive me nuts. i am writing to long, forgive me, your journal has put me on track with many issues, to look for the fun and beauty and the insanity of being trapped. i had four perfectly healty teeth just drop out of my head, my eyesight has almost made me blind. yet there is beauty in this, as they say it was better than alternative. i am going to create something from the nightmare. yes they can correct my vision give me implants for teeth. and it will be awhile, yet i saved those teeth as well as bad memories so i can either create something i like or dont. first time i have ever heard an artist say this. you have changed my thinking. thank you so very much. you must be a truly gifted person to feel so much conviction. i had this once upon a time. you helped to speed me up. thank you is not enough for what you have given me this night. janet a truth so i can like or not like. thanks janet forgive my long comment, could not stop. tears of joy.
Mark German
eponavisions -
You may not be able to see it, because you are in it.
But anyone reading your outpouring will see it clearly.
It is you that is inspiring. You and people like yourself, who despite the struggle – a struggle far greater then what the majority whine about – still manage to see past it, to fight through it and to continue sharing a great world with those around you.
Thank you for writing. You have touched me.
eponavisions
thank you, tears and happiness, you gave me hope, and trust me it is low. your journal as i said is in the front of my journal, it kept me possitive in thoughts, and even though i may not have liked what or where i had to be. for energy is low, your words got me through the door. better than anything could teach one. i thank you i honor you. janet
eponavisions
i purchased much last eve, and again next month. for yor have given me back that thought word deed not in biblical sense. high thoughts, high words and high deeds, for me now is seeing how long i sought to like the bad. no more. my drawing has changed, thank goddess or whoever is there. i know the day i read your journal i started changing, writing of those good and bad. wow did it wake me like a child who has been told to keep quite, yes i have even learned to speak of what i dont like in one so bad. funny he hangs up or walks out. he has given me new inspirtation to draw and photograph. i am laughing now thanks to you. before i would let him chew like dog with bone. one funny inspiration. your cards i have ordered will be in frames and inspiration. yes, life is in the details. for that one day i wrote and you responded gave me a new perspective and momentum. like a frien told me once. just is. never got it till you. that still small voice is finally listening. i cannot afford to internalize anger, it causes cancer. not just of physical. i am even drawing that. thank you again, as i live alone now a very good thing. i had to question why i put up with bad in my space. people are art, he will be dog w/bone. better therapy you gave me than anyone could. only an artist could see this, you. how you have changed my thinking. keep in touch. you help so much, and i a forever patron of you. funny you gave me good or bad to look at in art, people, thoughts do turn to words that create deeds good or bad. so i can like it or not like it. you may have saved my life that day i first read your journal. no i would not take my life. unless i was in so much pain if the big C comes back for i believe we should have that right. i have been a cat with more than 9 lives, you gave me more. i dont know if i am allowed to give you phone on this site. i would like to say if you come to colorado and i live in colorado springs. look me up. you always will have a room to stay in when visiting, and we have so much in beautiful vistas, bring your wife, kids boyfriend whatever.i do not offer this to many. just to let you know how grateful the gift. i can see and say no i dont like this. or yes i do like this. and yes i was in it, and it will probably visit me again, yet no longer can it hurt me. so correct in your response, and i am fighting now like i never could. well as you see i am writing to much again. forgive, the change you made in me and thoughts you could see and i could feel. i am going to add my poetry in my journal slowly, and oh how my art has changed. enough from me. stay in touch. there is magic in you, magic we all need in this whacky funny world. janet you touched me also. you got it. many do not. espescially those you would think do. ok, enough from me. just to say i like all your works and words. you are secure enough in this i like or dont like. changed my world. epona fights. and yes i am 5th generation county cork eire girl. yes i said i was gone, yet had to say that when my great grandmother, and great great gran would tell me of experience and travails of all the bad, they found a clear vision somewhat like your words. thanks and i promise i am gone now. thank you a millon times zillion, janet
Brad Sumner GLP
Mark, you do such beautiful work, I don’t know what to say. You have such a unique point of view and can capture images that make it difficult for us “amatures” to even compare! Keep up the wonderful, inspiring work that you do so that we will always have something to aspire to.
Mark German
That really touched me, Brad.
Thank you for the kind words. I have just had a look through your own folio and am impressed with a lot of your work.
rolypolygirl
Mark,
you have put into words exactly how I feel, what drives me in my photography. The pure joy I get when I take a shot that I know will be beautiful, even as I take it. Not because I am a skilled photographer but because I have been there at the right moment, that perfect time to capture that beauty.
The beauty of small things, of fleeting moments; that is the beauty I love to share.
Mark German
I love your work, RPG, and recognise the kinship ;)
Eleni Sofroniou
Lovely words Mark, u are spot on. Its about the perfect little moments. You have inspired me…thank you.
memory
I’ve often wondered what matters more to me, beauty or truth. Inspite of my classical references in my work, especially with titles in my heart truth reigns although of course the two are close.
Mark German
Beauty is truth – that’s why it’s beautiful.
And of course – truth is beauty…
Susan Trigg
Mark, I’ve only just stumbled on this journal entry, but am glad I did because it gives so much food for thought. Like many others, I love the beauty that you need to dig hard to find. I often feel overwhelmed by the large and obvious beauty, hence the paucity of brilliant sunset and landscapes in my port. You’ve inspired me to put more of my thoughts down in words – something I don’t do often these days.
Mark German
Go for it, Susan -
This is just the perfect place for it :)