"Absence of beauty was like hell" (100 x 100 cm) , by Erik Pevernagie x

We never come out untouched from the spell of beauty. While we break away from the commonplace, upscaling and veering from the trodden path, it challenges the ordinary. On the broken pieces of the humdrum of our lives, beauty conjures up poetry and infinity.

As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, we must make sure to heal our impaired vision, filter our perception, and sharpen the focus of our attention because willful blindness can never empower inspiriting vibrations or awaken the twinkles of enlightenment.

Poet John Keats was fascinated by beauty. " A thing of beauty is a joy forever." : Beauty is a source of recurring joy and happiness. Philosopher Emanuel Kant distinguishes the "beautiful" from the "sublime." The beautiful pleases universally. It is an object of constant delight.

However, the "sublime" is not to be found in nature, but only in our ideas, in our minds. But what do we do when beauty is absent? What, when "Botox" has failed?

As many people are ready to die for beauty, they are prepared to go through an infernal desert of starvation. The absence of beauty means ultimate loneliness. The absence of beauty means guilt and exile into no-man land. Life becomes an outcast's journey through a gloomy valley when beauty has forsaken."

But beauty is not a warrant for wellbeing. So does happiness not hinge on social success but is only legible via intricate, meandering discovery journeys in our minds.

Beauty can be wearing out quickly like glitzy pants, slowly waning through the tiredness of age, the fickleness of neglect, the boredom of habit, or the revenge of poor treatment.

In the architecture of their life, some may display Potemkin's beauty and happiness. They hide the dark features of their fair-weather condition, preferring setting up a window dressing of fake satisfaction for fear of being rejected as emotional outcasts.

Phenomenon: Beauty, happiness .

Factual starting point: Woman' '

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