Wabi Sabi isn't another word for lazy
I had been avoiding Apartment Therapy for the better a part of the closing yr. My blood pressure has been thanking me. But like a awful vehicle accident, there are some times after I just cannot withstand looking.
So the day past afternoon I went over to AT to peer in the event that they'd matured in any way due to the fact that my closing go to lo the ones many months ago. I should have recognised higher.
On the the front page, one of the undergraduates over there was proclaiming partly painted partitions as the brand new trend. It's funny, any time one of these yahoos spots something 1/2-assed and is a loss to explain it, the autumn back pronouncement is that it is Wabi Sabi. No it is now not.
Wabi Sabi is a uniquely Japanese anti-aesthetic that admires the beauty of the undone, but more than that, it's an appreciation of nature's hand in the undoing. US Retailers and trend setters have been trying to make a commodity out of Wabi Sabi for years and so far it hasn't stuck. Thank God.
Maybe the hassle is that Wabi Sabi is inherently anti-consumerist and Wabi Sabi takes time. Add in that Wabi Sabi is typically unplanned and Pottery Barn (and their cheering phase at AT) are left spinning their wheels.
So here is a primer. This is Wabi Sabi.
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| Photo by means of me |
This is laziness.
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| Through Apartment Therapy |
This is Wabi Sabi.
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| Through Outsider Japan |
This says "I don't know a way to use a paint brush."
This is Wabi Sabi.
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| Through Outsider Japan |
This is an eyesore.