About

The Blog

Part lifestyle blog part philosophical musing, Forms of Beauty explores contemporary ideas about aesthetics at the intersection of nature, design, art, and architecture. Though new to the study of aesthetics as a formal discipline, I have often found myself ruminating on the beauty of the objects and landscapes around me. This blog is thus just as much a forum to share my ideas and images with others, as it is a tool to develop an understanding of aesthetics and its role in the world today. It is my hope that these reflections will contribute to a collective understanding of beauty in all its many and varied forms.

The Author

Weaknesses include chocolate, red wine, kittens, sci-fi/fantasy novels, antiques, and a good blazer. I spent my formative years moving up and down the East Coast (eight states, but who’s counting) and hanging out with the family pets – a menagerie of dogs, cats, horses, goats, hamsters, and ferret.

I have a BA in International Studies and spent the first three years of my post-undergrad life working in New York City (the dream). There is a special place in my heart for upstate New York, where I spent time as a kid at my grandparents’ home in the Hudson Valley. While pursuing an MSc in Security Studies, I lived in London and Paris and worked as an au pair (despite speaking horrible French). I now call Portland, Oregon, home and live there in a lovely old craftsman with my partner and his daughter, plus our two cats, Odin and Freya, and our tripawd border collie mix, Fenrir.