wabi sabi
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From Rags to Riches – A Fashion Misinterpretation
Upon the return of an old Japanese soul to planet earth, if it were to find itself on the western hemisphere — midtown Manhattan, Milan or in a secluded town of Minnesota — watching a multitude of individuals wearing torn jeans and seeing these garment pieces in store windows with similar or even more expensive…
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Pushing Foretelling
Here I went, again. After neglecting to finish one coffee serving, hours later I noticed the cup on the counter with some coffee left. Instead of drinking it, or washing it before going to bed, as usual, I wanted to ‘read’ the cup in its dry state the next day. I wanted to see what…
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On Ugly Relatives
If beauty is relative to the beholder’s eye, where is the ugly held? Nature beholds beauty — aesthetics, at the very least. It is beauty that attracts, to pair and sustain, whichever species, with a longer tail, a mane, a crown, a walk. The art world promotes the beauty and the ugly. One the one…
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Undrinkable Cold Coffee Rests
With the influences of a Japanese philosophy, repeatingly emerging questions about our judgement of ‘beauty’ throughout the history of the Fine Arts (known in other language circles as beautiful arts), and the quotidian aesthetic finds that make us stop and look, the ugly which attracts has consistently piqued my interest. Wabi-sabi began in Japan. As…
Sila Blume 