Balloons — Day 158
Perhaps what makes something wonderful is the imperfections rather than the perfection.
A crack in a family heirloom. The decay of an artifact. The crooked nature of a bonsai. The Japanese call it ‘wabi sabi,’ the philosophy that embodies the appreciation of beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and the natural cycle of growth and decay.
I took June to look at ordinary things through unordinary glass. Some reversal of images, blurring and distortion of edges, and the refraction of the image itself.
“Adrian’s Life Rule 25: Sometimes things that are technically wrong are creatively right.”
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