A picture of a cathedral’s rose window puzzled me at first, but when I placed it next to a snowflake and a sunflower, it made sense: all had radiating symmetries. Vibrant quilts kept company with Matisse paintings and rainbow candies: all bursting with saturated color. I saw lollipops, pom-poms, and polka dots, and it dawned on me: they were all round in shape.
One day as I was studying them, something clicked. Each day I spent a few minutes adding new images, sorting them into categories and looking for patterns. I gathered pictures of these things and pinned them up on my studio wall. They weren’t joyful for just a few people. “These pleasures cut across lines of age, gender, and ethnicity.
For example, studies show that people with sunny workplaces sleep better and laugh more than their peers in dimly-lit offices, and that flowers improve not only people’s moods but their memory as well.” “ A body of research is emerging that demonstrates a clear link between our surroundings and our mental health.
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