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an offering of wabi for this season of holidays

One of the fun things about writing a blog that has a readership that sometimes borders on edge-y is receiving your comments.  In today's mail came a pointer to an early Christmas gift. 

'tis amazing

and with that - for this season of holidays, all my best wishes - Tom Portante

Origami Boulder:  - an artist's interpretation of the Japanese concept of wabi

 

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Wabi (rhymes with "Bobby") is the ancient Japanese counterpoint to Western sensibilities that associate beauty with symmetry, sleekness and technological perfection.

Wabi is often defined as the aesthetic distinctive flaws that forever distinguish the spirit of the moment in which an object is created from all other moments in eternity.   This origami boulder has wabi.

 

 

24 December 2006 |

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