Thursday, 8 October 2009
What is 'Ugly'?
I DON'T BLOODY KNOW.
I'm trying to dissect what is standardly considered beautiful to create something ugly.
I am finding it a lot more difficult than I thought. My original concept was to take something I consider beautiful and change an aspect of it (eg the material/shape) to transform it into something beautiful.
As a sort of model of this idea, I have been looking at squares as the ultimate beauty. They are symmetrical. They are perfect. They are structured.
So by slight distortion can a square become ugly?
The outcome has ended up almost as a comment on beauty, or at least our perception of it.
Considering beauty from the Cleopatra complex.
To be honest, I don't think she was all that.