Showing posts with label Wabi Sabi is............. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wabi Sabi is............. Show all posts

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Wabi Sabi is.......

 For my first Post I thought I should define what exactly Wabi Sabi is. Well define as best as anyone can. This is the most concise description I could find.

Wabi-sabi is the quintessential Japanese aesthetic. It is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional...

It is also 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.