Nature
is wabi-sabi and for me wabi-sabi is the most beautiful of all. From
wiki:
Wabi-sabi (侘寂?) represents
a comprehensive Japanese world
view or aesthetic centered
on the acceptance of transience and
imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty
that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete".[2] It
is a concept derived from the Buddhist teaching
of the three
marks of existence (三法印 sanbōin?),
specifically impermanence (無常 mujō?),
the other two being suffering (苦 ku?) andemptiness
or absence of self-nature (空 kū?).
Characteristics
of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include asymmetry, asperity (roughness
or irregularity), simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy,
and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and
processes
When
I am falling in love with someone, I usually find their
“imperfections” to be the most charming of all. My high school
boyfriend had a wide gap in his front teeth and I found it amazing. I
adored it. When I meet new people, I tend to look at them and the
thing that society would call “off” or strange is often the thing
that catches my eye.
In
nature it is similar but everything is wabi-sabi so it is hard to
choose. I can look at a group of mushrooms and each one has it's own
wabi-sabi element but as a whole they can have this element in the
context off all the things around them.
So
I am changing the focus of this blog to the natural world which is
art to me but is also in need of intent and focus. Lately, its all I
can think about. I spent yesterday upset for hours over the state of
the environment. I reached out to a close friend who told me to focus
on the solutions not the enormity of the problem. We have gotten here
so quickly, really only since the Industrial Revolution. So I am
going to focus on the solutions and teach myself to teach other to
see things the way I see them: beauty in imperfection and the
innerconnectedness of everything.
