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Haute Couture Earrings
July 27, 2007
Haute Couture Earrings ~ Canon 30d
I'm up late tonight watching a pbs special about the exclusive inner circle of Paris Haute Couture*. Why they didn't interview these cows, I will never understand. Last weekend, I couldn't help but pull the MINI over and document this road-side fashion show.
All of life, all that we allow in, is beautiful. Any true artist will tell you it takes a lifetime to develop an "eye" for composition and beauty. Unfortunately, a lot of people develop hautie tautie attitudes about what "taste" and "elegance" is without realizing something revolutionary...
The boundary of your definition of beauty is the boundary of the amount of beauty you will encounter in life.
So I ask you ~ are a bunch of drooling, dirty cows beautiful?
Think twice before you answer that question. Allow yourself to feel it. Stretch your artist's heart and mind and risk challenging your definition of beauty. Ask yourself, "Do I want more beauty in my life?"
If the answer is "yes" (and why the hell wouldn't it be) then I challenge all of you to take tug at your comfort zones. Don your Da Vinci Sherlock Holmes cap and magnifying glass and begin uncovering as much beauty as you can ...allowing it to pour in through your eyes and fill the well of creative possibility within you. Discover what the poets have known for eons ~ beauty is anywhere, everywhere, ready-to-wear, and can be found in the humblest of things. Life with a capital "L" is the the ultimate Haute Couture, so try some on for size!
Holy Cow! Wow! Get off your ass and savor it now!
Image shot on Hebron Church Road in Madison, Virginia on my way down to see wonderful, marvelous, Joan.
*The thought that someday in the future someone might Google "Haute Couture" and find themselves here makes me giggle.
Posted by susan at July 27, 2007 11:12 PM
Comments
LOL Susan... I LOVE your fashion sense and shot!
Posted by: jayne at July 28, 2007 7:53 AM
A great challenge, Susan. Maybe I'll take my little digital for a spin today and see what beauty I can uncover.
Posted by: Star at July 28, 2007 10:50 AM
Life is beautiful, the world is beautiful, and YOU are beautiful in everyway possible. Find beauty............. I am on a quest.
Posted by: janet at July 28, 2007 1:57 PM
I think the cows are fantastically beautiful, drool and all. I am on a quest now of my own! Thanks for the challenge!
Posted by: Candy at July 28, 2007 10:57 PM
I think sometimes people, as if I say that as if they are all that different from myself, and we ourselves put these imaginary bondaries on the deffinition of "ART" to protect our psyche from the way of waking up and noticing deeply how things make us feel so we can live in a protected world of acceptance. When we let go and include all things, then there seems to be this melting away of self and a loss of self identity. This melting away can scare us/me/you/them. And when we can cultivate and idea that we are all interconnected and view these images as they are and ourselves as we are and a loss of I-ness and US-ness, can there be some waking up of all humanity? Can there be a collective awakening of many or just by the awakening of one? Is this what really happened on Galgotha? Is that what happened under the Boddhi Tree?
Posted by: Bob at July 31, 2007 8:26 AM
I love the conclusion Bob went to. Seriously... the similarities of the redemption of the cross and the enlightenment under the Boddhi Tree are very similar. Giving up one's attachment to the "self" in the interest of others. All is one. I remember Joseph Campbell talking about this in the Bill Moyer's interviews. Both figures died to the concept of self to relieve the suffering of others.
Thanks for the comments, they're beautiful.
Posted by: susan at July 31, 2007 4:16 PM
