Online curation: THE NATURE OF NEON, the neon of nature

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Is there nothing less corruptible--or more delicious-- than a flower, a rainbow or a butterfly? Our sense of beauty is rooted in nature.

But our innate attraction to the brief ecstatic colors that only momentarily exist in the real world is reproduced and sustained artificially in order to sell things. As we thirst for color and hope, the advertising industry confuses us. Like lost hummingbirds, we vulnerably respond to ads and signage that glow all night like flowers.

1. Jennifer Steincamp, "Cornering" 2. Daniel Gordon, " July 27" 3. Daniel Gordon, " July 21" 4. Christos Dikeako, "Rhodeodendrons" 5. Mark Borthwick 6. Greg Rose (two images: "Arcadia" & "Promenade") 7. screen pic from the movie "Liquid Sky" (1983) 8. Kevin Schmidt, "Johnson Lake" 9 & 10. Project Eden (a tourist destination in England)