Beauty
is in the eye of the beholder, so they say. However according to the
ancient Greeks and Egyptians, aesthetic perfection can be calculated
using a mathematical formula –1/1.618 also known as the Golden
Ratio. This Golden Ratio can be found in nature, (for example in
snail shells and pine cones) and in architecture, (the design of the
great pyramids in Egypt and the Parthenon in Rome use the Golden
Ratio). Research has indicated that “beautiful” faces tend to
obey this ratio. According to the formula, the ideal face is one that
is 1.618 times longer than it is wide.
"Golden Ratio" is a body of work exploring the idea of
“Perfect Beauty”. Unique images, which dare to ask, in these
fully inclusive times we live in, what exactly is "beauty"?
How far can it stray from these principles before most people would
agree that the word “beautiful” isn’t the most adept! or is the
word “beautiful” by its very nature, an indistinct, mercurial
concept constantly in a state of flux and that “Beauty really is in
the eye of the beholder”
