{"id":286304,"date":"2020-11-14T20:31:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T01:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=286304"},"modified":"2020-11-14T20:32:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T01:32:37","slug":"the-desire-to-banish-ugliness-from-our-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/14\/the-desire-to-banish-ugliness-from-our-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Desire to Banish Ugliness from Our Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our desire as artists, or as individuals with very sensitive eyes and visual senses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We hate the aesthetically <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/30\/beautiful-vs-ugly\/\">ugly<\/a> in shape, texture, and form &#8230; and we desire to banish ugliness from our eyes by either changing our environment (our homes, exterior and interior design, architecture, community, city, climate, and neighborhood). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-philosophy-of-aesthetics\"><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/aesthetics\/\">The Philosophy of Aesthetics<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1600\" data-attachment-id=\"223464\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/eric-kim-muscle-flex-00030-resized\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ERIC-KIM-muscle-flex-00030-resized-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1600\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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All<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/15\/simple-is-sexy\/\">Simple is Sexy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/10\/towards-a-philosophy-of-aesthetics-in-photography\/\">Towards a Philosophy of Aesthetics in Photography<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/14\/the-philosophy-of-aesthetics\/\">The Philosophy of Aesthetics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/14\/all-killer-no-filler-2\/\">ALL KILLER, NO FILLER.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/03\/the-most-compact-and-high-quality\/\">The Most Compact and High-Quality<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/28\/the-beauty-of-imperfection\/\">The Beauty of Imperfection<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/14\/taste\/\">TASTE.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/12\/the-more-obscure-and-unclear-the-better\/\">The More Obscure and Unclear, the Better.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/24\/cultivate-your-own-taste\/\">Cultivate Your Own Taste<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/20\/image-quality-and-great-photos\/\">Image Quality and Great Photos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/10\/why-do-imperfect-photos-look-more-beautiful-aesthetics\/\">Imperfect Photos are More Beautiful<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/30\/do-you-photograph-the-world-better-the-same-or-worse-than-reality-aesthetics\/\">Do you photograph the world better, the same, or worse than reality? #aesthetics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/16\/aesthetics-are-ethics\/\">Aesthetics are Ethics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/30\/beauty-over-truth-philosophy-aesthetics\/\">Beauty over Truth #philosophy #aesthetics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/30\/philosophy-of-aesthetics-and-beauty-in-photography\/\">Philosophy of Aesthetics and Beauty in Photography<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/17\/aesthetics-in-photography\/\">Aesthetics in Photography<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/18\/aesthetics-strengthen-simplify-and-focus\/\">Aesthetics Strengthen, Simplify, and Focus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/13\/not-better-image-quality-more-beautiful-aesthetics\/\">Not better image quality; more beautiful aesthetics!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/31\/why-aesthetics\/\">Why 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