Injection of Color (Aggressive Chromaticism)

Yesterday's post has been drained of color. This one aggressively injects it back into the surrounding world. Nature is in large about color, its palette best represented by flowers. These are my photos from the Royal Botanical Gardens.

It is interesting that flowers are all very different, just like humans - except humans are way more colorful inside. Yet we wear masks to make us monochrome, as conformity is considered a social virtue and self-exposure leads to vulnerability.   

Death has a lot of artistic value, perhaps because of the sensitivity of the issue, perhaps because of the mystery. 

Seems like nothing is happening in the picture but that's not true. Life is always about activity, death is still. But death can be thought of as a separate perpetual state, or it can be thought of just as a term for conclusion of life, and thus inseparable and momentary. And if death is just the end of life then it is not the opposite of life, no - then the opposite of activity is non-activity: sloth. Thus sloth  is not only immoral, it is anti-life. And that death is not just the end of life but both a perpetual state and a momentary conclusion at the same time, does not change the premise of that statement. 

Are flowers happy? They might not have feelings but happiness doesn't have to be an emotion, it can be a satisfactory state of existence. Then the lack of ambition exhibited by flowers is the key to happiness. Fortunately, humans are more complicated. Without human ambition I wouldn't have a computer to blog on.

 

Why is nature beautiful? Why does beauty exist? We can survive physically without experiencing beauty. Then beauty is completely pointless - but it is not, otherwise why do we all  gravitate to it through creating or appreciating art. Then beauty exists for something else, and through its presence testifies for the existence of the soul. 

Funny how this post ended up being not that much about the flowers. I wish for all of you to have a bright day you'll remember in the warmest colors. Until tomorrow!