Freedom

“In short, all good things are wild and free,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in a succinct expression of the joy we find in simple, unobstructed movement. Freedom delights us because it is what enables us to pursue everything else that matters in life. We find an aesthetic experience of freedom in open spaces and the sensations of wild nature. Incorporating this aesthetic, through negative space and greenery, as well as natural textures, materials, scents, and sounds, can help soften and ease the constraints of the manmade world.

Pinwheels + whirligigs: the joy of things that spin in the wind

The joy of jumping on the bed

Avatar: Pandora’s aesthetics of joy

Joyful spinners

Joyful library: Let the Great World Spin

2010: a look forward

Don’t think, just shoot: break the rules photography

A little wednesday afternoon joyful art…

Joy of hula hoops

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