Wabi Sabi - the art of finding beauty in imperfection.
What a profound statement!
Wabi-sabi is the quintessential Japanese aesthetic. It is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Not your usual aesthetic ... nothing associated with what should make sense.
It is two separate words, with related but different meanings. "Wabi" is the kind of perfect beauty that is seemingly-paradoxically caused by just the right kind of imperfection, such as an asymmetry in a ceramic bowl which reflects the handmade craftsmanship, as opposed to another bowl which is perfect, but soul-less and machine-made.
"Sabi" is the kind of beauty that can come only with age, such as the patina on a very old bronze statue.
And what I strive to attain right now ... striking the balance between aesthetic and feeling. perection and imperfection. The natural and man-made.
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