Beauty Conspiracy

“The beauty is the individual; the conspiracy is following your internal and true-natured instincts. Releasing the idea of concrete thinking and judgment, which try to hide the beauty and confine the conspiracy, the true conspirator follow ones internal path, while supporting the positive path of others.” – Andre Khoury

Beauty Conspiracy came about as both a call and response to my desire to combine the many amazing qualities of humanity, equipt with contradiction, complexity and the ultimate clarity of unifying forces towards a limitless well of happiness and positive growth. A vision behind what Beauty Conspiracy represents to me as a woman and an artist is described below...yet it stands as only one voice in the force behind the ever increasing, always existing, Beauty Conspiracy movement...

Beauty exists without question, yet unraveling the many sources is a conspiracy waiting to happen. Taking part in this personal, yet intertwined quest, defines conspiracy as loosely binding together to create movement towards a unified goal…..Wanting to affect change even in the face of adversity and walking in confidence holding hands with the contradictions inherent in true beauty and extinguishing the external standards of beauty that suppress rather than empower.

“(The process of beauty) is constantly digging through the whole big compost heap and finding the ways to honour it, live it and perpetuate it.” – Gabriele Wills

We cannot set boundaries for beauty, or expectations in our continuous journey through hot spots of happiness, thus the conspiracy lays not in rebellion, for the action is not merely a response, rather an innate drive to sow a path not traveled and gather in unity with those who want to conspire together through the unavoidable complexities of life that supply the duality of light and dark, positive and negative, and together we move forward to create and maintain the light that acts as a snowball to spread inspiration through positive thought and action.

If conspiracy rings negative, true beauty acts as the contradiction to the common image of what it is to conspire, the survival of true beauty is based on the ability to move forward with what is an honest reflection of self and outlook unaltered by the negative influence of a predetermined set of values and guidelines offered as roadblocks to prevent the blossoming of true strength, true vision, honest intentions and the power of beauty freedom.

“…beauty conspiracy is where we have inner harmony together...” – Tori King

Another point of discussion lays on why conspiracy is viewed as negative. To attempt to over throw the status quo, is commonly looked at as a negative attempt by those who identify with “the way things are”. Many social movements in the past (many of which continue on today) dealing with core issues such as racism, homophobia, classism, sexism, etc, were looked at as a negative movement against mainstream values of separatism and the hierarchy of value placed on human life based off of gender, race or sexual identity. In the life of any artist, scientist, scholar or other prominent figure who is ahead of their time it is common to mislabel their efforts for movement and change as upheaval of what is known, what is safe, what is accepted. Beauty Conspiracy takes the knowledge of system confinement and takes charge to change the image of beauty as a stagnant standard to a timeless, limitless well of inspiration, passion and drive that exists among us waiting to be noticed, held and appreciated.

There are many ways to look at the coupling of beauty conspiracy as a technical joining of two words, as a philosophy and as a concept that means something to each of us. Each point of view holds interest for me personally, which returns me to the point of establishing Beauty Conspiracy as a movement created by individual voices united towards living in a combined reality of inspiration and freedom. How we define and harness beauty in our own lives, and the vehicles to our conspiring, are through our individual gifts..through our art, our words or daily dedication to making a mark on our paths. The essence of simply being is established through the release of binds and the surrender to the moments that inspire positive motion within and outside of us. To reach that surrender, the platform of freedom can be established through the loyalty to our core values and in joining with the people in our lives that share in that limitless vision of possibility, taking a step out of bounds and not conforming to what is expected.

“The freedom to be a conspirator and delve below the general agreed upon ideas you come across every day, surprise yourself, be the contradiction that inspires, ask questions of yourself and come up with your answers…” - Collette