WABI-SABI is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature, of accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay, and death. It's simple, slow, and uncluttered-and it reveres authenticity above all. Wabi-Sabi is flea markets, not warehouse stores; aged wood, not Pergo; rice paper, not glass. It celebrates cracks and crevices and all the other marks that time, weather, and loving use leave behind. It reminds us that we are all but transient beings on this planet-that our bodies as well as the material world around us are in the process of returning to the dust from which we came. 
Here are some key points of Wabi-Sabi...An intuitive world-view
Relative
Looks for personal, idiosyncratic solutions
One-of-a-kind/variable
There is no progress
Present-oriented
Believes in the uncontrollability of nature
Romanticizes nature
People adapting to nature
Organic organization of form (soft, vague shapes and edges)
The bowl as a metaphor (free shape, open at top)
Natural materials
Ostensibly crude
Accommodates to degradation and attrition
Is comfortable with ambiguity and contradiction
To every thing there is a season
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