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The legendary Eva Zeisel is a ceramics designer whose curvy, sensual pieces bring delight and elegance to tabletops around the world. 

Just listen to her TED talk on the playful search for beauty. I am simply amazed. 

I explained what creativity means to me in this post I wrote on Fashionurbia. As of beauty, perhaps I’ve already stated, I strongly believe it is a very subjective matter.

While surfing the web, I stumbled upon these samples of that kind of beauty that, in my opinion, lives in creativity:

Today I played the virtual piano. Each of its keys corresponds to a letter or a number from the computer keyboard. So, I decided to play a poem on it. For fun.

Here’s the result. A little bit psychotic.

Then it occurred to me that the music I came up with resembles to the way Dada poems were made.

Victor Brauner - Le ver luisant, 1933

Dada, an avantgarde movement of the twentieth century, among others like Futurism, Constructivism, Integralism, Surrealism or Expressionism, denies all sense and reason. The word “dada” originates in French meaning ‘hobbyhorse’, a word selected at random from the dictionary.

Here’s the methodology of making a dadaist poem.

To make a dadaist poem by Tristan Tzara

Take a newspaper.
Take some scissors.
Choose from this paper an article the length you want to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
Next carefully cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them all in a bag.
Shake gently.
Next take out each cutting one after the other.
Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag.
The poem will resemble you.
And there you are—an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd.

Instead of conclusion: As beauty has no absolute definition or criteria, is it that it has to do with sensibility or with unreasonable affinity?

I stumbled upon these photos today. They made me think once again about beauty and war. Actually about how thin is the border between them.

These are signs of beauty and acceptance in Mursi tribe, Ethiopia.

Photo by Eric Lafforgue

This is what a woman has to endure in order to get to this kind of beauty. I call it declaring war to yourself.

Photo by Eric Lafforque

I don’t know how many of those who stopped by, asked themselves about the meaning of this blog’s title, but at least one person and I needed to read/write a post that would explain it.

First of all I have to say I like diversity, I like new, I like change and I like exploring, and experiencing. That is, I am going to write on different themes. So, trying to find a suitable title that would somehow define what you can read here, I have chosen “Beauty over war”.

And this is how I define this metaphor:

Beauty = strength, beauty, creativity, art, generosity, responsibility, color, will, courage, forgiveness, understanding, openness, integrity, unity, joy, support, love, freedom, dreams, faith…

War = splitting, ugliness, weakness, envy, fight, theft, discrimination, evil, revenge, humiliation, limits, frustration, fear, misery, selfishness, hate, slavery, mistrust, disorientation, hesitation…

Photo by .nevara

All positive and negative that happens inside or outside is because of us creating beauty or war. It’s us who always choose. My manifesto is to choose consciously beauty over war!