This article was first published in Cocooners N° 15.
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Can you remember for a moment about the last time you were captivated by something truly beautiful? Was it captured by your brain or your heart? Was it about seeing or feeling? Did it make you cry or smile? Did it make you mad? Did it give you goosebumps?
If we consider beauty as a subjective and dynamic event that occurs between you and something else, then it can happen at any time, depending on the context and the way you look at it. What one person finds beautiful, another may not share the same sentiment. Yet, therein lies the magic of it all – the ability for each of us to discover and appreciate beauty in our own unique way.
And what if that something else was work? Can work be beautiful?
Perhaps it’s the irregular patterns of a piece of pottery that tell the story of that clay and the hands that touched it, the melodic harmony of a musical composition, organizations reshaping themselves to cope with a better planet… What makes a work beautiful? Is it the precision of its execution, the passion behind its creation, the journey to bring it to life or the impact it has on those who encounter it?
In the midst of a world full of information, what if we pause more often to talk, to reflect together, to make space for what can be born from a collective that inhabits the spaces it exists in, the work it organizes, the people who go through it? Why and what are we working for?
This article was first published in Cocooners N° 15.
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