Views and Perspectives

I feel tempted to analytically associate image, presence, and beauty. Images are beautiful, they are beauty itself, combining, for that matter, subjective perception and objective radiation.  And yet, images are necessarily fugitive (as is exemplified by the digital application Snapchat). ‘Death’ may be an alternative name for the fugacity of the image. The bright minds of creative thinkers and imaginative thinkers are always on the edge of death.  When I contend that beauty is always fugacious, I do not intend to repeat a cliché. Fugacity is not an accidental characteristic of beauty, it is the essence of beauty itself. Where there is beauty, transience and finitude are illumined; both in the contemplated beautiful ‘object’ and in the contemplating ‘subject’.  However, ‘transience’ and ‘finitude’ are, in my view, no self-evident, self-explanatory notions; they are expressive of alterity. The passing-away of the moribund highlights beauty, presence, ...