Wabi-Sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature, of accepting the nature cycle of growth, dacay, and death. It's simple, slow, and uncluttered it reveres authenticity above all.
Wabi-sabi is aged wood, not Pergo; rice paper, not glass. It celebrates cracks and crevices and all the other marks that time, weather, and loving use leave behind. It reminds us that we are all but transient beings on this planet that our bodies as well as the material world around us are in the process of returning to the dust from which we came. Through wabi-sabi, we learn to embrace liver spots, rust, and frayed edges, and the march of time they represent.
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Ya si
this aesthetic embraces all that is truly important in the end- it's almost become a form of religion to me- to know that perfect symmetry is unattainable! it is the hand crafted un-machined beauty that comes from a deep awareness that we are dust- and someday we might be a saucer or part of an elephants ear. It is freedom.
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