Underneath Aesthetics - by emilia - Surfista
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The search for substance and permanence
I discovered a bunch of stunning, warm homes in Australia this morning that ignited a dormant longing for cohesion between my internal self and my external environment, the opportunity to imbue my outside world with what’s on the inside. The home featured below is called Arcadia, but all of the firm’s work is just immensely desire-inducing. I got to thinking about the wanting behind a house, conceived in my mind as an aesthetic expression of what lies within. It is the opposite of what we find easy: novelty, optionality, convenience. Home in this sense can be conceptualised as anti-novelty,…
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