Content, Form and Function in Aesthetic Representations of the Air

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Abstract

There are three inseparable components of aesthetics that promptly refer to appreciation, taste, and the impact that result from our perception. In addition, and above all, there is also the period of time we remain interested in something before it loses its importance or falls into total oblivion. These three components are content, form, and function. However, they do not depend on the materiality of the object, since it may be a concrete object, a musical composition, an idea, etc. Content is the set of meanings and representations of something being represented. Form is the materialization of that which can be identified by its purpose, form and utility, since it was created to represent something. Function is the practical use of that which has form, meaning, and utility, since it was created to represent something. When I refer to aesthetics of air, e.g., associating all the representations that comprise the space “we do not see”, but know exists, I am referring to all sorts of representations, be they related to facts, elements, things or events that are either related to it or would not make any sense without it, despite the fact that they are unlike the ethereal and apparently invisible form of air. Their sense results from the description of a scenario, circumstance, motif or remarkable event that were transformed into an eventual representation that projects air into forms or ideas, including it in that respective representation.