In the case of our beautiful garden, it’s a local object of interest, where neighbors or other people passing by, stop and admire it! So, my mother feels very proud, because she devotes much spare time in that pure enjoyment. Her garden has its own distinctive phenomenology, in which nature made obedient to her visual norms; beautiful roses (her favorites) ...
Observing everyday aesthetics in nature actually forms an act of resistance, or is it just a comforting balm to counter the guilt we feel when we act aesthetically in an ugly and cruel world? Everyday Aesthetics sustains action We don’t like to think ourselves as the rich people on the Titanic; sipping champagne in black tie while the water rises. ...