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Apr 23, 2013
"All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him." --Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Beauty of Wabi Sabi
In The Beauty of Wabi Sabi, Author Leonard Koren writes about the history of wabi-sabi, a Japanese aesthetic of anything that is imperfect, impermanent, or incomplete, which is, of course, the antithesis of the Classical Western idea of beauty as something perfect, enduring, and/or monumental. Rather, its attraction resides in the inconspicuous and overlooked details, in what is hidden, and tentative. As Koren delves into the meaning of this altered artistic approach, he discovers an attraction to things "rich in rough texture," faded, odd, awkward. He sees it as "materiality pared down to essence with the poetry intact." And his article is in itself pure poetry...
BE THE CHANGE
For the next few days, notice and honor whatever in the world around you is faded, odd or awkward, pared down to its lovely essence.
