The article reflects on the author's experience as an artist in residence at the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, emphasizing the shared motivation for beauty between artists and neuroaesthetics researchers. It critiques the devaluation of aesthetics in the art world, stemming from modernist movements that rejected beauty in favor of challenges against academic conventions. The author expresses a deep-rooted belief in humanity's intrinsic desire for beauty, influenced by her background in science and education. This belief guided a stained glass project, Super/Natural, influenced by research on biophilic design.
"The question of whether beauty lies in the world or in our heads might be reframed as follows: what in the coupling of mind and world gives us the experience of beauty?"
"Being the daughter of a microbiologist and the director of a school for severely autistic children, I thought the undeniable desire for beauty was rooted in nature and inescapably human."
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