Worn Comfort and Worth.
Wabi-Sabi.....
It's a Japanese.....'thing'. I have heard it described as finding beauty in the everyday. I think it has many, many more layers than that. It has to do with melancholy...it has to do with simplicity....austerity...nature...the everyday....
What I picked up from it was a love and a willingness to find beauty in worn objects. Objects used day after day with their character showing through in the form of worn spots, cracks, numerous repairs and a comfort in their use.
It would be easy and natural to draw a comparison with this philosophy and with humans and ageing. Maybe too easy...but I will anyway. If we are lucky we will all gather more age, more pains, more scars, more knowledge and more experience. And the shininess of youth and newness will eventually be long gone...with the paint worn through, some repairs done to some broken or weakened parts...but still used and still usable...and still appreciated.
There's a beauty in comfort and familiarity....or rather there is a comfort in familiar beauty. When you keep something because you appreciate it and come to find pleasure in it's use....and it's permanence....and it's reliability.
Even long after the glossiness of newness is gone.
If anything the ageing process, and the worn spots from constant use, will only add to it's character and beauty.
I would prefer something old and comfortable to something new and improved. Fortunately there are still things being made that do not wear out or suffer from planned obsolescence.
They're called 'People'.
It's a Japanese.....'thing'. I have heard it described as finding beauty in the everyday. I think it has many, many more layers than that. It has to do with melancholy...it has to do with simplicity....austerity...nature...the everyday....
What I picked up from it was a love and a willingness to find beauty in worn objects. Objects used day after day with their character showing through in the form of worn spots, cracks, numerous repairs and a comfort in their use.
It would be easy and natural to draw a comparison with this philosophy and with humans and ageing. Maybe too easy...but I will anyway. If we are lucky we will all gather more age, more pains, more scars, more knowledge and more experience. And the shininess of youth and newness will eventually be long gone...with the paint worn through, some repairs done to some broken or weakened parts...but still used and still usable...and still appreciated.
There's a beauty in comfort and familiarity....or rather there is a comfort in familiar beauty. When you keep something because you appreciate it and come to find pleasure in it's use....and it's permanence....and it's reliability.
Even long after the glossiness of newness is gone.
If anything the ageing process, and the worn spots from constant use, will only add to it's character and beauty.
I would prefer something old and comfortable to something new and improved. Fortunately there are still things being made that do not wear out or suffer from planned obsolescence.
They're called 'People'.
