Of course, there’s no real way to define beauty. It’s always a thought exercise when it comes to topics such as this. But over the course of the conversation, Dowse illuminates an array of solid pillars that uphold our universal concept of what makes something beautiful. A human history of seeking some kind of truth, love, meaning, authenticity, and all without any promise of an absolute answer. 

“It speaks to the nature of reality,” Dowse comments. We’re seeing and listening and using our senses to take in as much of the world as we can. But it's not an accurate portrayal, ever. What you're seeing is not the full representation. It's not the full texture or quality of everything that you're looking at. It's just not something you can perceive.

And this is where Dowse likes to live creatively; making things that don't make complete sense to him. Or at least going in with the intention to make something that doesn't immediately occur to him, puzzles him, and yet still somehow works.

One could argue, he searches to reproduce that experience of holding those heavy silver owls in his grandparents house and wondering, what is it about these that are worth displaying? And how can I create my own version of it?

And these are impossible questions to answer. But it’s the way of thinking about it that matters. It’s the want to look for the beautiful that is the key. And like true love, you just know it when you’ve found it. Some things are just beautiful because they are. There is no need to understand why. But there is a need to question why. As Dowse poetically puts it: “That is something that I pull from real life a lot. It's like, you can't understand real life, but you can still find it to be very beautiful, you know?”