This posting has two parts. The first part was produced on dial-up Internet at Victor Harbor. The material is courtesy of Geisha asobi blog.

Yuri Dojc

From the series Amorous Nature

Amorous nature. It's a different way of viewing nature to the 'how can we make money from nature' of instrumental economic reason. This reason despoils you beaut country through landclearing and deforestation.

It overlooks natural beauty:

Helen Firth

Sex and nature. The foresters and farmers would walk by these rock formations and not see their sensuality.

Sensual rocks! They'd mock you for the very suggestion.

We all know the toughness of economic reason. Sacred sites do not exist. Only resources and development exists.

I came back to Adelaide to finish the second part of the post on broadband, as it is quicker to explore the images in a gallery with broadband. My ISP was having minor difficulties with ADSL and I was disconnected. So the second part of the post is truncated.

Helen Firth

There is more to desire than making a dollar.

The other point I was going to make was that aesthetics has shown an exclusive concern with the beauty of works of art, which it connected with human freedom and the dignity of the human subject in an instrumentalized and mutilated world. At the same time aesthetics has repressed natural beauty.

The repressed---natural beauty----needs to be redeemed.

Comments

Posted by: Tiff | January 21, 2004 9:41 PM