Enjoyment of Beauty

In craft there is what Polanyi (1962) calls a tacit knowledge we know more than we can express. And so perhaps it is in the processes of engineering synthesis and analysis or in the lines of enquiry, theoretical or experimental, that aesthetic considerations have their place. Who can forget the simplicity and directness of some of G. I. Taylor s experiments Astarita suggested that 

The innate aesthetics of craftsmanship has never been better expressed than by Vita Sackville-West (1927) in her poem The Land  

They have held reality down fluttering to a bench  

Cut wood to their own purposes compelled The growth of pattern to the patient shuttle  

They have ignored the subtle Release of the spirit from the jail of shape. 

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