Memories

Pictures of mostly meatless food, random objects, unaware people, and spaces that spark interests.

june 20 - 23

with mom, dad, and sister

the start

okonomiyaki welcome night

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class-stuffs

june 24 - 28

mapping assignment

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i wandered

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nagoya

july 8

hiroshima

& miyajima

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last days

of the program

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The Western world is obsessed with perfection, symmetry, and reverence for exceptional beauties that last. Japanese aesthetics, however, are very different. They derived from what's called wabi-sabi and yugen, which are intimately linked with Buddhism. Wabi-sabi refers to the beauty of the impermanent, the mundane, the imperfect and the somewhat broken. This way of living does not derive from passions for invincibility, youth, and flawlessness, but from respects for what is ephemeral, fragile, and modest. The latter concept, yugen, is the principle of "hidden beauty". It suggests that the signatures of life are not in the ostentatious trappings, but the subtly and profound grace that can only be realized by a quiet mind and a cultivated eye.