Aesthetics of Nature Blog

1. 
   24 October 2026Above the Timber Line: Twin Peaks, Iceland and the Elves

   In Twin Peaks something evil lives in the woods. The guests from Iceland come from a land with hardly any trees, and they spend the whole party singing.

2. 
   20 September 2026Towards a Deep Aesthetics of Nature

   Deep ecology asked us to think on behalf of the biosphere. A deep aesthetics of nature would ask us to go outside.

3. 
   6 August 2026The Smartphone, a Claude Glass in Every Pocket

   The tinted mirror of eighteenth-century tourists never quite disappeared. It learned to take pictures.

4. 
   17 July 2026Can Space Be Sublime?

   Hubble’s deep images gather light for days and show galaxies that may no longer exist. What exactly are we admiring?

5. 
   26 June 2026Earthrise and the Imagined Planet

   In December 1968 a photograph turned the Earth from a landscape into an object. We have been imagining it ever since.

6. 
   14 May 2026Faking Nature at Škocjanski Zatok

   A bird reserve beside the Port of Koper was built from nothing. Is it nature, a forgery, or something else?

7. 
   9 April 2026Two Caves, Both Curated

   One cave is a show, the other a closely guarded wilderness. In both, there is nothing to see until someone lights it.

8. 
   22 March 2026America’s Most Wanted Painting

   Two artists asked people in ten countries what they wanted to see in a painting. Nearly all of them asked for the same landscape.

9. 
   11 February 2026Bliss: The Hill a Billion People Remember

   The most familiar landscape of our time was not found on a walk. It came with the computer.

10. 
    18 January 2026The Claude Glass: Admiring Nature with One’s Back to It

    Eighteenth-century lovers of landscape carried a small dark mirror and turned away from the view in order to enjoy it.