Negative Capability

Are you familiar with the term Negative Capability?  I know, sounds negative, doesn't it?  But it's not. Here's how Keats defined it:

when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason...with a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

We've been thinking a lot about Negative Capability over here at The Squirrel King, usually emphasizing it's exhortation to find beauty in the mysterious, and I wanted to remind you of some of the beautifully mysterious images we've shared over the years:

Shi Ne Nielson on the catwalk. 

Rufus frames up for the great wagon train scene.

Panorama of Robin, Vlad, Mango Princess and director.