Loved this post! Thank you for writing and sharing!
I really liked your point about symmetry—if we don’t use aesthetics, other movements will, and by not leaning into it and crafting our own aesthetics, they’ll be defined haphazardly and incidentally, which we don’t want. The Mill + Wordsworth example is also so touching! ❤️
As for the suggestions, classical and solarpunk are both good options (I personally prefer classical), and I’d throw in psychedelic art like Alex Grey’s as a contender! 😋
To the points that folks are making in the comments about how much resources should be allocated to aesthetics: art is not something that can be printed en masse like mosquito nets. It wells up and forms organically from the artist, and so we shouldn’t push people to create EA-aligned artistic works if they don’t feel the desire to do so, otherwise the art will just be lame, canned, or inauthentic.
I’d love to see art, poems, sculptures, songs, and more about / inspired by EA, and I think an improved aesthetic would be a boon to the movement!
Loved this post! Thank you for writing and sharing!
I really liked your point about symmetry—if we don’t use aesthetics, other movements will, and by not leaning into it and crafting our own aesthetics, they’ll be defined haphazardly and incidentally, which we don’t want. The Mill + Wordsworth example is also so touching! ❤️
As for the suggestions, classical and solarpunk are both good options (I personally prefer classical), and I’d throw in psychedelic art like Alex Grey’s as a contender! 😋
To the points that folks are making in the comments about how much resources should be allocated to aesthetics: art is not something that can be printed en masse like mosquito nets. It wells up and forms organically from the artist, and so we shouldn’t push people to create EA-aligned artistic works if they don’t feel the desire to do so, otherwise the art will just be lame, canned, or inauthentic.
I’d love to see art, poems, sculptures, songs, and more about / inspired by EA, and I think an improved aesthetic would be a boon to the movement!