Comments on: Intrinsic beauty http://www.shedstyle.com/2007/12/25/intrinsic-beauty/ Garden Sheds, Architecture, Interiors, Garden Ornament Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:38:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: MA http://www.shedstyle.com/2007/12/25/intrinsic-beauty/#comment-570 MA Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:05:59 +0000 http://www.shedstyle.com/2007/12/25/intrinsic-beauty/#comment-570 I love this subject! I was in an Art Journaling class taught by Hannah Hinchman several years ago. One of the other students was a real life rocket scientist from NASA. We were closely examining a pine cone, looking at the patterns of the scales when he explained the Fibonnaci series. I was astonished. Later, I had the good fortune to see a garden at the Chelsea flower show that was created and based on all the "equations" in the natural world. I cannot look at a pineapple, artichoke, sunflower, knapweed, pine cone without thinking how remarkable this whole world is. Beautiful. I love this subject!

I was in an Art Journaling class taught by Hannah Hinchman several years ago. One of the other students was a real life rocket scientist from NASA. We were closely examining a pine cone, looking at the patterns of the scales when he explained the Fibonnaci series. I was astonished. Later, I had the good fortune to see a garden at the Chelsea flower show that was created and based on all the “equations” in the natural world.

I cannot look at a pineapple, artichoke, sunflower, knapweed, pine cone without thinking how remarkable this whole world is. Beautiful.

]]> By: Lydia Plunk http://www.shedstyle.com/2007/12/25/intrinsic-beauty/#comment-522 Lydia Plunk Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:33:16 +0000 http://www.shedstyle.com/2007/12/25/intrinsic-beauty/#comment-522 Greetings, Dee! The older I get the more amazed I am with my good fortune. The more I know, the more I am in awe of God's creations. Not just in how beautiful things are when they are alive. A living maple tree is a beautiful thing. However, looking at the ripples and sheen in a plank of maple this morning, I saw how He created something that even after it was cut down and died, it still has purpose and beauty. If God would provide a "second act" for a tree where it can still serve with its beauty, I cannot imagine that it won't do even better for His human children. I do not know what it will be for us. But I expect it to be something sublimely wonderful. Greetings, Dee!

The older I get the more amazed I am with my good fortune. The more I know, the more I am in awe of God’s creations.
Not just in how beautiful things are when they are alive.
A living maple tree is a beautiful thing. However, looking at the ripples and sheen in a plank of maple this morning, I saw how He created something that even after it was cut down and died, it still has purpose and beauty.
If God would provide a “second act” for a tree where it can still serve with its beauty, I cannot imagine that it won’t do even better for His human children.
I do not know what it will be for us. But I expect it to be something sublimely wonderful.

]]> By: Dee http://www.shedstyle.com/2007/12/25/intrinsic-beauty/#comment-518 Dee Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:59:37 +0000 http://www.shedstyle.com/2007/12/25/intrinsic-beauty/#comment-518 Aren't we lucky creatures that we get to observe all of the intrinsic beauty set before us? The fact that physical beauty relates to a mathematical equation doesn't surprise me at all. The theory of the French Third also reminds me of the studies done on attraction and human faces. We are attracted to certain spatial boundaries in the face. This is coupled with the attraction of scent (which is our oldest and most important sense.) Scientists believe we are attracted to people who have very different DNA, thus ensuring that the species will remain diversified. I believe that God is way more complicated that we will ever know in this life. However, I think we will all be astounded at what waits for us in the next one. What do you think? Aren’t we lucky creatures that we get to observe all of the intrinsic beauty set before us? The fact that physical beauty relates to a mathematical equation doesn’t surprise me at all. The theory of the French Third also reminds me of the studies done on attraction and human faces. We are attracted to certain spatial boundaries in the face. This is coupled with the attraction of scent (which is our oldest and most important sense.) Scientists believe we are attracted to people who have very different DNA, thus ensuring that the species will remain diversified.

I believe that God is way more complicated that we will ever know in this life. However, I think we will all be astounded at what waits for us in the next one. What do you think?

]]> By: Lydia Plunk http://www.shedstyle.com/2007/12/25/intrinsic-beauty/#comment-508 Lydia Plunk Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:48:38 +0000 http://www.shedstyle.com/2007/12/25/intrinsic-beauty/#comment-508 Intrinsic Beauty. Timeless Beauty. The form, rhythm, scale and material, be it man made of divine in origin, that upifts man's consicousness above the merely rational. I think the concept is not just for what can be measured by our eyes. It extends to all the senses. Great music and literature follows the same patterns in our auditory response. Great meals starts with smell, then site and then on to texture and taste. It is not just the sight of a garden that uplifts. It is the sound of birds playing in the bird bath. The smell of oranges blooming on the path in February. The feel of the crisp morning breeze and the feel of the thyme leaves crumbled through the fingers on a morning walk. It is the intake of all the senses that form intrinsic beauty. Intrinsic Beauty. Timeless Beauty. The form, rhythm, scale and material, be it man made of divine in origin, that upifts man’s consicousness above the merely rational.
I think the concept is not just for what can be measured by our eyes. It extends to all the senses. Great music and literature follows the same patterns in our auditory response. Great meals starts with smell, then site and then on to texture and taste.
It is not just the sight of a garden that uplifts. It is the sound of birds playing in the bird bath. The smell of oranges blooming on the path in February. The feel of the crisp morning breeze and the feel of the thyme leaves crumbled through the fingers on a morning walk. It is the intake of all the senses that form intrinsic beauty.

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