Showing posts with label wabi sabi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wabi sabi. Show all posts

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Wabi Whati?

According to the most trusted resource on the internet, Wikipedia, Wabi-sabi is explained as a "Japanese aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection." It goes much deeper than that as it also involves Buddhist teachings on simplicity, austerity, suffering, etc. As a designer, I have simply summed it up as the appreciation of beauty in imperfect things as opposed to the beauty of perfection. As a Christian, I see a correlation of the saving work of Christ in my life - taking my imperfection and declaring it perfect in Him - to the Wabi-Sabi thought. Perfect and yet imperfect. Perfectly imperfect?  For now, I can't go any deeper than that.