Simplicity allows me to be honest. It gives clarity, and facilitates peace. Simplicity is why I get up in the morning, it's what makes me eat healthy, exercise, and read. Simplicity is the reason I dress well. It's why I practice self-awareness. Simplicity is why I connect with people more. It's why I want to be kind.
There's nothing complicated about simplicity.
There's nothing complicated about simplicity.
I'd argue that simplicity is one of the most complicated things to look for.
Simplicity is a gem in the rough, if the roughage were complexity. There's tons of artists who've aimed to find it and from it have produced some odd things with very strange rationale (ranging from giant balloon dogs made of metal to geometric shapes with little else going on). It's what's found when you've filed down everything into it's most base forms.
There's complexity within almost everything, which is why those truly journeying to find it find the path towards it complicated, but then there's those who rush towards assuming they've already found it by simply choosing to not really delve into it's depths.
If you can dig into it and it's still simple in design, it's simplicity is genius.
For example: 
Graphic Designers and Advertisers alike lose their breeding juices to this stuff.
Simplicity beyond the layman's understanding is the end result of successful reductionism.
Simplicity is a gem in the rough, if the roughage were complexity. There's tons of artists who've aimed to find it and from it have produced some odd things from it. It's what's found when you've filed down everything into it's most base forms.
A big part of it is acceptance.
There's complexity within almost everything, which is why those truly journeying to find it find the path towards it complicated, but then there's those who rush towards assuming they've already found it by simply choosing to not really delve into it's depths.
Sure, but I'm not apathetic at all, in fact I think I've grown in how I handle things. You're right about the complexity actually, it does require a continuous reminder of self-awareness and honesty. Those things, simple as they are, are actually quite a handful.
What are your experiences with this?
I love finding people who can take in an insane amount of data and spit it out succinctly in a single sentence that captures it all. It denotes a cleverness that's otherwise generally lacking through being either too wordy or otherwise unclear.
I love finding people who can take in an insane amount of data and spit it out succinctly in a single sentence that captures it all. It denotes a cleverness that's otherwise generally lacking through being either too wordy or otherwise unclear.
Yes and when someone uses big words to seem smart it has the opposite effect, lol.
Simplicity is a gem in the rough, if the roughage were complexity. There's tons of artists who've aimed to find it and from it have produced some odd things from it. It's what's found when you've filed down everything into it's most base forms.
A big part of it is acceptance.
No, it's an art form, and a highly respectable one at that. There's many Eastern practices that embrace the idea to absurdity, ranging from tree trimming practices to outright Feng Shui.
Acceptance is just a way to tell yourself to stop digging, assuming you were digging in the first place.
There's complexity within almost everything, which is why those truly journeying to find it find the path towards it complicated, but then there's those who rush towards assuming they've already found it by simply choosing to not really delve into it's depths.
Sure, but I'm not apathetic at all, in fact I think I've grown in how I handle things. You're right about the complexity actually, it does require a continuous reminder of self-awareness and honesty. Those things, simple as they are, are actually quite a handful.
What are your experiences with this?
I've in general always enjoyed the idea of "Less is More", as it's something I'm not immediately very good at when it comes to art, literature, etc. I admire it from it being an expression done well from others that I struggle to do myself, and from the mental sparking I feel as it expands in my head from something so otherwise simple in appearance (ex: Got Milk).
My OCD symptoms in the past once found peace in simplicity, as it meant less details to work with. Of course the irony in OCD aiming for simplicity is immediately obvious to the onlooker, as it shows complexity in pretty much every other area.
My trip to Japan awakened my senses to a lot of things as well, seeing angles more cleanly cut, patterns more intricately done, train systems more efficiently organized than anything I've ever seen, their art is more about smoothness and textures, their sound quality is cleaner even down to their electrical humming being quieter...
It showed me how complicated living can be when the differences were laid out in front of me like that. I enjoy the complexity of life, but it's abundance is what makes true, TRUE simplicity such a rare treasure. It's also shown me how much of one's expression can denote their own existing sensory sensitivities.
Simplicity is a gem in the rough, if the roughage were complexity. There's tons of artists who've aimed to find it and from it have produced some odd things from it. It's what's found when you've filed down everything into it's most base forms.
A big part of it is acceptance.
No, it's an art form, and a highly respectable one at that. There's many Eastern practices that embrace the idea to absurdity, ranging from tree trimming practices to outright Feng Shui.
Are you sure it's that restricted? And, I'm not looking to become enlightened.
Acceptance is just a way to tell yourself to stop digging, assuming you were digging in the first place.
That's where I disagree. Acceptance shouldn't be seen as a conclusion. For me it's the first step to accept, and after that it allows me to look at things from a clearer and less emotional perspective. If anything, it's a form of honesty and awareness.
There's complexity within almost everything, which is why those truly journeying to find it find the path towards it complicated, but then there's those who rush towards assuming they've already found it by simply choosing to not really delve into it's depths.
Sure, but I'm not apathetic at all, in fact I think I've grown in how I handle things. You're right about the complexity actually, it does require a continuous reminder of self-awareness and honesty. Those things, simple as they are, are actually quite a handful.
What are your experiences with this?
I've in general always enjoyed the idea of "Less is More", as it's something I'm not immediately very good at when it comes to art, literature, etc. I admire it from it being an expression done well from others that I struggle to do myself, and from the mental sparking I feel as it expands in my head from something so otherwise simple in appearance (ex: Got Milk).
My OCD symptoms in the past once found peace in simplicity, as it meant less details to work with. Of course the irony in OCD aiming for simplicity is immediately obvious to the onlooker, as it shows complexity in pretty much every other area.
I can see why acceptance raised a less-than-favourable connotation. This notion of simplicity meaning that you have to remove things doesn't sit well with me.
My trip to Japan awakened my senses to a lot of things as well, seeing angles more cleanly cut, patterns more intricately done, train systems more efficiently organized than anything I've ever seen, their art is more about smoothness and textures, their sound quality is cleaner even down to their electrical humming being quieter...
It showed me how complicated living can be when the differences were laid out in front of me like that. I enjoy the complexity of life, but it's abundance is what makes true, TRUE simplicity such a rare treasure. It's also shown me how much of one's expression can denote their own existing sensory sensitivities.
Is this what modern art attempts to emulate?
