Trying to define beauty is like trying to explain colors to a blind person. There is a dictionary definition, but since everyone experiences it differently it really cannot be captured with words. The artwork I’ve chosen to help explain beauty is the Primitive Streak collection of dresses designed by biologist Helen Storey (helenstoreyfoundation.org). These dresses were designed to show what occurs within the first 1,000 hours of human life, beginning with the fertilization of the egg. The design that I liked best, and thought was most beautiful, was the Spinal Column Dress:
I think art is meant to capture inner being and soul of the creator, and still manage to reach out and affect the viewer. This dress shows, literally, what every person is made from, and that everyone is connected because we’re all made of the same stuff, DNA. Even though each person’s is a little different, we all have it and we all went through the process illustrated by Primitive Streak. These dresses are beautiful because they show that everyone is connected and that life is a miracle. Everything demonstrated in this line of dresses shows something that happens before a person has been alive for 41 days. It’s a miracle how two unrelated cells can grow into a living person, who has a heartbeat, limbs, their DNA, and more in less than two months.
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