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.