Do you find this beautiful?

[sarettah]

Originally posted by Colin@Jun 20 2003, 11:36 AM
So the symbolism overwhelms all other aesthetics for you.

Yes, I have an extremely hard time seperating my knowledge from the image.

If I were seeing it for the very first time with no knowledge of what it represented then I might feel differently...

Much the same with a swasticka.. If I were seeing it without knowledge of the holocaust.. I might say, hey, thats a cool little cross...

But, because I have the knowledge of all the swasticka came to represent I cannot view it without seeing the imagery of the savagery that was imposed upon a group of people in it's name....