the first of many posts about wabi sabi, but here is where it all got started! i saw this picture by jeff wall many years ago in some modern art gallery, i don't remember where, but i remember turning a corner and coming across this picture in a light box say 3mx2m sq. it was this perfect abstract form in these beautiful muted colours. it baffled my perception, i just saw what was there, my mind couldn't for a few moments make anything out of it, it was just perfect form. then it registered. it was a dirty old sink, maybe in a caravan. it was horrible, like your worst experinces of public toilets.
i'm fascinated in that moment where perception changes, where, as leonard koren says 'beauty is coaxed out of ugliness'. since then i've uncovered wabi sabi in all kinds of places, in art, movies, music and most of all in ordinary life. for now here are some more pictures.
this is another jeff wall it's called something like 'pie dish with peas'.
i don't know who this is?
this is one of many that i took in a deserted mining town in america, it is called 'bodhi state park' but i don't think they spelled bodhi like this!
3 comments:
How ya doing? Finally made it to your site properly. Well done. It looks great (content caught my eye too!)Like the bodhi state park pic at the end. i too have become a geek this weekend and set up a flickr photography site @ www.flickr.com/photos/hannapple. Right, i'm going back to read about your holidays! loads of love, Hannah
inspiring stuff; it connects with the ceramic work I do. Thanks
Jonathan at LBC
Wow I feel so pleased to have found somewhere to share my connection with wabi sabi- it's a new conenction but a deeply felt one. I am a bout to move into a caravan for 2 years and will name my space there Wabi sabi- nothing perfect, nothing finished and nothing lasting, metta Maitripala
Emerald Australia
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