Metal Wabi

Wabi-Sabi

My new friend the artist David Quinn ( http://www.davidquinn.ie/) has introduced me to the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi-Sabi. To quote Leonard Koren, the author of 'Wabi-Sabi for artists, Designers, poets and philosophers', Wabi-Sabi 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.

In the chapter on the spiritual values of Wabi-Sabi his headings are:

Truth comes from the observation of nature

All things are impermanent.

All things are imperfect.

All things are incomplete.

"Greatness" exists in the iconspicuous and overlooked detail.

Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness.

Piano Cars

On the right you can see the Salvador Dali designed sedan. It's made from squiggy rubber, if only all cars were. This fleet is cruising the top of my late mother's baby grand (stomach steinway as they say). In reality it is a Bechstein made in 1893 and recently superbly overhauled by Jeffers of Bandon. It was a wedding present for my grandmother from her father Mr Justice Wright. I rather fancy being called Mr Justice myself. The paino now resides with me and is pleasant distraction when painting conundrums become too taxing. Painting is a suitable distraction when musical frustrations set in. Symbyosis how are you.