LUMINOUS EXCERPT FEATURING IMAGES BY CHAPTER006 CONTRIBUTOR BILL HENSON

BEAUTY AND SADNESS / THERE’S GREAT BEAUTY IN SADNESS THAT PROBABLY COLOURS THINGS A LITTLE BIT FOR ME. THERE’S A KIND OF SIGNIFICANT OVERLAP; SOMETHING THAT STRIKES YOU AS HAVING TREMENDOUS GRACE OR TREMENDOUS BEAUTY OFTEN CONTAINS THIS KIND OF IMMINENT DISINTEGRATION. THE MORE INTENSE THE BEAUTY, TO ME, THE MORE SUGGESTIVE OF ITS LOSS IT IS AT THE SAME TIME. THAT SENSE OF THE TRANSITORY NATURE OF THINGS, AND THE SENSE OF THE FRAGILITY OR THE DELICACY OR THE ‘AGAINST THE ODDS’ NATURE OF THE BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE, OR OF AN OBJECT, IS PROBABLY HEIGHTENED.

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video excerpt from Luminous, A collaboration between BILL HENSON, Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Recorded by Ovation, live at the State Theatre in Sydney, australia.