October 2018
ISSUE #60: Ugly
Ugliness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. One woman’s prized rhododendron is another’s horrid weed. The pursuit of beauty and evasion of ugliness is an essential part of being human. But what does it mean? Who says what is ugly and what isn’t? Can something be so ugly it’s beautiful? How do plants play into this dialogue? So many ways of seeing, so many questions.
Ugliness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. One woman’s prized rhododendron is another’s horrid weed. The pursuit of beauty and evasion of ugliness is an essential part…
