Today was our last Wabi Sabi studio at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia and a delightful gathering it was. Each of the six artists presented their completed, or near to completed, piece(s) with an attendant statement regarding their personal experience exploring this ancient Japanese aesthetic. The images posted here are well representative of the handmade, imperfect, transient, natural, soft, aging, patina quality that is often used to describe Wabi Sabi. The artist has a love affair with seaweed and enlisted it as the basis for the hand made paper bowls. She intends to allow them to return to the sea by casting the driftwood (holding the bowls) back into the Chesapeake Bay from whence the seaweed came.
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I was thrilled to hear news of your Wabi-Sabi studio and to see the wonderful paper/seaweed bowls. Please pass my congratulations to the artist.
ReplyDeletethanks so much Ian...you have certainly been an ongoing inspiration for what we have learned thus far.
ReplyDeleteThe bowls are beautiful, and I love that the artist is returning them to the waters that brought forth the materials that inspired them to begin with. Such a rich focus for a workshop - I live seeing how your first idea has culminated and unfolded! xox K
ReplyDeleteI hear so much about wabi sabi these days. it seems very popular.
ReplyDeleteIt was great being able to look at the enlarged photo of these bowls on the driftwood. Love the idea.
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