Wabi-sabi

In traditional Japanese aesthetics, there is a principle called wabi-sabi.

Wabi-sabi is about impermanence, imperfection, and incompleteness.

Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.

In the West we like things shiny and new, we chrome objects to death.

Wabi-sabi is appreciating the worn, the used, the unexpected.

Wrinkles, patina, cracks and dust.

There’s more to life than whatever is new.

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