Magpie Aesthetic

We all know what Aesthetic is.

Blog's live on it. At least 90% of a post is planning out how it will look and what pictures could go with it and where they would go and how the layout would work. And you also have to consider how the font and the colours go with your background, as well as whether it is actually legible and practical.

I for one, spent about 2 hours prior to this post, redesigning my blog because I didn't think the aesthetic really portrayed me. Am I exaggerating about the length of my endeavor? Guess you'll never know. Though I can assure you that not much thought goes into how my blog posts look, as I don't have the best patience or eye for detail. Once the background, title and profile are complete, that's the extent of my blog aesthetic planning.

But everyone can agree that, maybe not consciously, we all care about aesthetic. Whether it be to do with finding the perfect lighting for a photo so that your social media looks "On Point" 

or whether it's matching your outfit just right, to not only to express yourself but also wordlessly show others how you're feeling and who you are.
(Totally not a shout for my friends Instagram. Her photo's are beautiful and she takes them all herself.)

Aesthetic is a big part of ever day life. We automatically, as a society, prefer the things we find attractive. From food, to clothes, to art, to even people. 

Now some people, not myself, have an eye for aesthetic. They can see it in every day items and take something ordinary and make it look extraordinary.

I have more of a magpie approach to aesthetic. I have absolutely no skill when it comes to creating my own art, but I can appreciate it in others and will steal the things I find pretty from other peoples aesthetic and then sit on my nest of chaos and disorganization and pretend that I can't see that none of it goes together and some of it contrasts and contradicts others.

But in my artistically naive mind, each individual piece is pretty, so when put together, they should also be pretty. 

So whilst I might not yet be at the level where I am so invested in maintaining the perfect blog or social media where I'll be willing to miss the bus or be lay for an event because that lighting war perfect, and definitely no where near at the level where I will throw myself to the mud to get the perfect shot of a flower that caught my eye, but I do think I can take a not terrible photo if I need to, and I have progressed massively from the days where I was an insane little girl where the amount of thought or care in my outfit resulted in me running around the garden in a fur coat, ballet skirt, wellingtons and on a skateboard.

But it seems I still have a long way to go!