Comments on: The beauty of the mundane. http://literarylens.org/2009/04/the-beauty-of-the-mundane/ Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:08:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kate http://literarylens.org/2009/04/the-beauty-of-the-mundane/comment-page-1/#comment-855 Kate Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:06:11 +0000 http://looking-in.net/photo/?p=112#comment-855 You don't anything about the Device in the window - the thing that isn't a teapot ... that's something that makes the picture extra interesting - the inclusion of a mysterious, but obviously functional object. Are "worthwhile or beautiful" the alternatives you make them out to be? I wrote down Cindy Sherman's lines in my journal earlier this semester as a warning to myself: "It seems boring to me to pursue the typical idea of beauty, because that is the easiest and most obvious way to see the world. It's more challenging to look at the other side." Which, of course, you've done - but that also means that I'm not sure that "beautiful" may therefore be the best word. Your mother suffers for your art... You don’t anything about the Device in the window – the thing that isn’t a teapot … that’s something that makes the picture extra interesting – the inclusion of a mysterious, but obviously functional object. Are “worthwhile or beautiful” the alternatives you make them out to be? I wrote down Cindy Sherman’s lines in my journal earlier this semester as a warning to myself: “It seems boring to me to pursue the typical idea of beauty, because that is the easiest and most obvious way to see the world. It’s more challenging to look at the other side.” Which, of course, you’ve done – but that also means that I’m not sure that “beautiful” may therefore be the best word.

Your mother suffers for your art…

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