In my current work, I’m looking at all this salvaged wood. Every piece, every board has to be compared to the other boards. Does it look good, do I need to change it…flip it upside down, turn it around…how does it look best? The color of that wood, does it look good with the board next to it? Compare that to some automaton in a factory who is stapling pieces of nondescript wood into arms for a couch that no one is ever going to see. There is no art in that, there is no soul in that. With wabi-sabi, you take the faults of nature and couple that with the mind and hands of the craftsman, and you make beauty.
Wabi sabi – Mass Production… Part 4 of 4
