Perceptual-Imaginative Space and the Beautiful Ecologies of Rose Lowder's 'Bouquets'

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Abstract

Experimental filmmaker Rose Lowder is an intricate explorer of perception. Many of her exquisite silent short films feature flowers that are scrutinized frame by frame in shots that appear to have layers, as well as volume, and to quiver between simultaneity and succession. Yet these perceptual palimpsests that present almost too much for the eye to take in also reveal an as yet unexplored relation to imagination. Informed by ecological principles and foregrounding floral beauty, Lowder’s 'Bouquets' create a striking bond between perceptual and imaginative space. This article draws upon twentieth-century phenomenological accounts of perception before delving into earlier historical discussions of beauty in nature and in art, and bringing out connections to moral philosophy and feminist ecophilosophy, in order to understand how the beautiful entwines with ecological concern in the perceptual-imaginative space of her films
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)314-329
Number of pages16
JournalParagraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory
Volume43
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2020

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