Philosopher Queen

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Beautiful

1. Complexity is most intriguing when it juxtaposes the simple.
2. I prefer solving mysteries to being lectured by the head detective.
3. I prefer a child’s intuitive wisdom to the academic’s schooled analysis.
4. I prefer the kaleidoscope to the periscope.
5. I prefer abstraction (in art, music, dance, or theatre) that jests and riddles and playfully reveals its irreverence.
6. I prefer leaving emotion at the door: form, color, texture, and dynamic are beautiful in and of themselves.
7. I often prefer the Components to the composite Greater Meaning.
8. I prefer a cross-pollination of genres to absolutes.
9. I prefer prose that is poetic.
10. I prefer a suggestion of narrative to the straight-jacket of a specific story.
11. I prefer the myth or the fairy tale to the instruction manual.
12. I prefer performance that convinces with an easy physicality yet is capable of risking a spontaneous detour.
13. But, with a secret prejudice for strange imperfections, I often prefer the puppet over the prima ballerina.