Source: Radio New Zealand
The ceramic bowl with an uneven glaze. The teacup mended with gold lacquer.
The images are calming and attractive.
They are said to reflect wabi-sabi – a Japanese aesthetic often summarised in the West as valuing imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness.
Wabi-sabi: things are flawed, things change, and things are never fully finished.
Ketut Subiyanto
