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Based on an excerpt from the book Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life by Beth Kempton. This article first appeared on mindbodygreen.com with permission by Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
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WABI SABI
Essentially Wabi Sabi is the conscious act of accepting that everything can be perfect. For this project I decided to focus on the sense of things being impure or broken but still holding a sense of beauty. The dragon is to symbolize the change that was brought to Kyoto at the expense of the former beauty. The cherry blossom trees were used to show a sense of peace in front of a sky that symbolizes distress. The fire in the foreground of the picture stops before it can go too far back to show that peace can still be withheld.
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