Sunshine
Artist Statement
Beauty and the sublime are often debated in the field of aesthetics as involving the nature of beauty, yet illicit the question as to where Beauty lies - in the object (form) or in our eyes as the beholder ? Considering that beauty is a self made experience, rather than occurring in the world conjures up yet another question - what kind of ‘thing’ is it? The perspective taken in this creative body of photographic works is yet another strand of thought involving the understanding that beauty can be a form of subjective experience, that of beauty bringing Sunshine Connelly into my life as the subject.
Medium
Photography
Type
Solo Exhibition - Online
Duration
July 2015 - ongoing
Further Details
The writings of the writings of Longinus, Burke and Kant are legendary in this area of philosophy; “Longinus,” On the Sublime (1st or 3rd century AD); Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757); and Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgement (1790).
Whilst Longinus speaks of ‘elevation of style’ and ‘simplicity”’ in the written discourse, the five (5) sources of the sublime remain relevant if made applicable in the visual context: ‘great thoughts, strong emotions, certain figures of thought and speech, noble diction, and dignified word arrangement’. Likewise the loss effect of rationality, alienation leading to identification with the creative process of the artist and a deep emotion mixed in pleasure and exaltation’ is as much a photographers state as it is a writers predilection. In this case to honour the grace and charm of a great friend who agreed to be my subject, in response to spoken audio terms which will remain secret, Sunshine is a body of creative works which imbues all aspects of the complex emotional consideration for what constitutes beauty and the sublime.
Links
Further reading on this topic available at Plato Philosophy [ HTML ]
