Ugly Beauty

Concept:

Some lifetimes ago the first artistic representation of human beauty was made, since then we’ve always had something to compare ourselves and others to. The more similar your features are to whatever that canon might be, the more graceful you are, and vice versa. Which reference or parameters you hold to depends on your culture, social group, media, and, in an embarrassingly poor degree, your "own" taste. That’s the ugly in beauty. 

We’ve got almost no say or merit in where we stand in this superficial spectrum. Yet we rest essential things like our self-esteem, our love for others, decisions, judgments, etc on it. It can so easily blind us, blind us to our self worth, blind us to others' worthiness, blind us to all that resides inside. You might not even realize, everything goes disguised, happening in that dark room behind, you know… your subconscious. 

Reality is not what we live, we live our perception of it, and our perception of someone’s actions or true being can be easily romanticized or over criticized. It’s hard to actually see the ugly in beauty or the beauty in ugly. It could also be the other way, you can underestimate other qualities in a beautiful piece, or overvalue other aspects in a beautiful mind. 

Don’t be blind.