Leonard Koren defines Wabi-Sabi as the “beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional”*
there’s an abandoned warehouse here in Atlanta, one of many. sunlight streams through the open ceiling…revealing ghostly sprites hiding behind rusting metal walls. their scribbled glyphs and faint music beckons, calling out to those who see beauty in rusted shapes and faded metal.
i am one who answers their call…
enter
*©Koren, Leonard. “Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers.”
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