wabi sabi:

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Wabi sabi is a world view derived from traditional Japanese aesthetics centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. A difficult concept to translate and describe, wabi sabi can be roughly understood as a beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent and incomplete”. I understand wabi sabi as an affect rather than an easily describable (through language) concept. For me, wabi sabi is a lived and embodied philosophy and cosmology…a sense of serene melancholy and spiritual longing. See also In Pursuit of Shadows (1997) by Junichiro Tanizaki and the work of female Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi.