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TV-Dinners and Beauty...
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Posted by billybofh on Wed 26 Jun 02, 8:04 PM
I've always had problems....
...But then any of you who've read my other weblogs will
know that... 
The specific problem I'm talking about in todays little
peice is the perception of beauty.
The physical beauty which is named and labelled as
beauty in magazines and sunday supplements is, to me,
akin to eating ready-prepared meals. There is a kind of
plastic, over-produced blandness about it. A
homogeneity of taste and colour. It's almost like the
true beauty has been processed out and then "Beauty(tm)"
has been injected back in to make them palatable again.
To take your time over food, to savour its taste and
texture - the colours and flow of tastes is what engages
me at an emotional level. To savour a face, a body.
To trace the contours of smiles gone by, the creases
from the held-back tears of old arguments. To feel the
muscles grown into place beneath the smooth skin - to
feel the weight and envelop myself in the beauty someone
truly beautiful.
It makes me sad to walk past the ready-meals in
supermarkets. The walls of chill average. I feel the
same sadness when I walk past the images in
newsagents... face after face of chilled, ready-to-serve
normality. It kinda makes me cry sometimes....
Edited Wed 26 Jun 02, 8:10 PM by billybofh
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