"Beauty is the enabling power of the truly good to draw us out of ourselves for the achievement of excellence.The bias which regards beauty as ornamental, cosmic, and useless overlooks the indispensable motivational power of beauty for the attainment of human excellence and happiness." - from John Navone, Enjoying God's Beauty.
click for a really cool perspective trump l'oeil piece
Farnsworth in Taos, Cheryl's art friend.
I so want to experiment in wax! click
Image from elsewhere: