Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Disorganized Beauty

We sometimes associate beauty with obvious organization and sometimes with simplicity. Beauty can be both disorganized and complex. These flowers look unreal and they are surely disorganized but they are beautiful. I see a lot of beauty in apparent disorganization. Once when I was very young we had a huge woodpile. One day, for a reason that now escapes me, I sat down and numbered every piece of wood in the pile. I think I might have been fascinated with the disorder of the pile and my natural compulsive tendency stepped in and took over the day. I remember finding pieces of wood with my penciled numbers for years. Obviously, my attempt to order chaos did not work.

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