Wabi-sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transcience. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete". Characteristics of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include assymetry, asperity, roughness or irregularity, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes. Hand… Continue reading Goooo….. Wabi Sabi
Category: Art
Screen Save
>> Thanks to Comme des Garcons website and their recent collaboration with artist Assume Vivid Astro Focus at Dover Street Market, I have a year's worth of rotating desktop wallpapers to go through…
In Conversation with Julie
>> This is so late to report back on but I had some strongly festering thoughts after I had my little conversation with Julie Verhoeven in the basement of David David's pop-up store a few weeks ago. Given there's now a permanent memento of the event – a video of the convo, which fully showcases… Continue reading In Conversation with Julie
Feel and Think
It's understandable if you've come on to the blog in recent weeks and just been plain CONFUUUUUSED. The names of designers that I saw at Tokyo Fashion Week aren't exactly household or internationally renowned (yet). If any of you saw the excellent 'Future Beauty' exhibition at the Barbican you might have been wondering what was… Continue reading Feel and Think