Plain truth

Thu, Feb 7, 2008

Here’s some ugly food I had in London

Beauty has started getting on my nerves. All the beauty around me. The beauty I see in design and lovely crafts sites. The beauty in food photography. Beautiful websites. Beautiful fashion. I can’t stand all this restrictive gorgeousness. Can’t we be free of it and produce something hideous and interesting? Without it being stylized again into something beautiful. I am asking myself first, the compulsive embellisher.

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16 Comments For This Post

Jeanne Says:
February 7th, 2008 at 9:39 pm

Love you my sweet friend………
Hugs and kisses and smiles across the miles
Blessings
Love Jeanne ^j^

devil mood Says:
February 8th, 2008 at 1:05 am

Yikes, that’s some ugly soup, well done!
Thank God for ugly things that make us appreciate the more beautiful ones.

Were you in London this weekend?

Gina Says:
February 8th, 2008 at 7:49 am

OMGOSH!! i am totally with you. elegance, splendor, magnificence every where i turn .. online, stores, people.. annoying. i am more of a comfy come as you are girl.. “natural” i think make- up artists call it.

i love my natural webpage. that is updated every .. er… three weeks at best.

Chloe Says:
February 8th, 2008 at 9:06 am

Jeanne
hi Jeanne! hugs to you too.

Devil
No I wasn’t, but I had kept this photo from last time. I’m going sometime this month or early March though.

Gina
hehee, yes I sometimes check your webpage and see the naturalness you mention i.e no new posts. I love beautiful things but at this point I am a bit sick of them. It seems everybody is on a hunt to find more and more beautiful things to fill their days.

vesper Says:
February 8th, 2008 at 7:34 pm

nietzsche said that we should embrace the ugly.

this can be taken in SO many ways…..the ugly in ourselves, the ugly in the world, the opposite of the shiny surface, etc. etc…

i’m with you on all you said.

stephanie Says:
February 9th, 2008 at 1:10 am

Do you ever read Bust magazine? I ask because I’m going through withdrawal since I can’t find it here.

Though of course there is beauty in there, their idea of such is off-kilter and often nearly ugly. (They even once featured a nerdy friend from college in one of their Men We Love issues.)

If you can’t find it (if not at home, maybe on one of your London trips?) let me know and I’ll mail you one when I’m home in July.

Connie Says:
February 9th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

I like to have a challenge in finding the beauty in things. I totally agree with you my friend.

Hugs,

missalister Says:
February 9th, 2008 at 8:46 pm

How could “Plain truth” have slipped by me? I had trusted Internet Explorer’s feeds check completely! I wish I had one of those personalities that would let me trust it again… >:-(
Anyway, I was delighted as usual. In the attractive display, irony. In the economy of words, abundance. Freedom to move any which-way. We can see the tongue-in-cheek of it, the reality of it, the lightness, the darkness, the question of it. You keep on producing that, I’ve got the repulsive market cornered (just posted an icky piece yesterday)!

Ash Says:
February 9th, 2008 at 10:09 pm

I’m with you on this one. Beautifully written, as always.

Cathy Says:
February 9th, 2008 at 10:54 pm

Even what could be ugly looks beautiful to me ( I was admiring the pretty tablecloth or bedspread on the second photo…

How are you dear friend? I will e-mail you this weekend.
xo

Heidi Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 4:59 pm

I’m curious to what is that Ugly brown food in the bowl?

Hi Chloe.. Hugs~

Novel Nymph Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 7:13 pm

chloe, there was beauty in your malevolent disposition. remember beauty is in the eye of the beholder and let us be thankful we do not all have the same eye!

Novel