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2024.05.29
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Qili✎
Qili半自由设计撰稿人
Semi-freelance design writer
美是理性之外的感知，是私人的、无法严谨定义的、无须解释的、没有对错的。正因为这种意义不明而广泛的属性，让“美”沦为填充思维空缺的词藻符号，变得荒唐。以下是尝试将“美”落回感知实处的小调查：
调查样本：女，27岁，身体健全，从事文化领域工作
认为是美的事物：餐厅外骑在爸爸肩头等位的卷头发意大利小女孩、一间铺了长绒地毯又配了复古莲蓬头的卫生间、胶卷冲洗出来的照片里的自己、金匠Giovanni Corvaja作品、完美的糖霜甜甜圈、蛋壳大漆工艺、侧乳、高迪的巴特罗公寓和米拉之家、卒姆托的布鲁登·克劳斯田园教堂、植物乱长的野地、燃烧的细长蜡烛、皱褶的亚麻布……
Beauty is sensibility beyond rationality. It is private, defying precise definition, eschewing the need for explanation, and existing beyond moral judgments of right or wrong. It is this very ambiguous and all-encompassing nature that often reduces “beauty” to a mere linguistic placeholder—a vague term used to paper over gaps in our thinking, rendering it absurd. The following micro-survey attempts to ground “beauty” once again in practical, tangible perceptions:
Sample of survey: Female, 27 years old, in good health, works in the culture industry
What she considers beautiful: an Italian girl with curly hair sits atop her dad’s shoulders outside a restaurant, a bathroom with a shag carpet floor and equipped with an antique shower head, herself as she appears in a darkroom-developed photograph, works by goldsmith Giovanni Corvaja, a perfect frosted donut, eggshell lacquer technique, side boob, Casa Batlló and Casa Milà by Gaudí, Bruder Klaus by Peter Zumthor, a wildland rank with plants and weeds, a burning taper candle, wrinkled linen …