LIVING IN THE ALPSStudying design, I took a class in aesthetics in philosophy. It was there where I learned to put my fascination with mountains into words.
In his 1757 work, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Edmunde Burke distinguishes between two powerful aesthetic experiences:
the BEAUTIFUL —what is pleasing, harmonious, and well-formed.
the SUBLIME —what overwhelms us with a sense of vastness and power, both awe-inspiring and humbling.
This is a collection of numerous attempts of capturing this sense of the Sublime that the mountains invoke.