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What is Wabi Sabi?
It is a traditional Japanese aesthetic that reveres the imperfect, incomplete and impermanent.
Although wabi sabi is often associated with Zen Buddhism, the Western eye can readily appreciate the beauty of deeply weathered and worn surfaces.
Old rusted farm tools, brown oak leaves, withered crab apples, paint peeling on common bricks, an abandoned wooden rowboat, stone walls and wooden fences falling to ruin…these are wabi sabi.
I hope that my paintings and photographs will provide a few moments of quiet reflection.
Bob Barancik
February 1, 2009
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