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4 hours ago, Scrapbook said:

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A beautiful photograph, but it seems much more pure Zen than Wabi-Sabi. Really lovely. And the light bokeh dot just completes it. Maybe we need a Zen thread also!

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To realize the principles of wabi-sabi in an art work is hard to achieve and exeptional. If (you) succeed everybody will see it like an arrow hits the target. Without the cultural backgroung (not just by birth but by studying) it is impossible to picture. 

But: Photography is the only medium in which art can happen by chance.

That means: Study hard (! not "Wikipedia" 😉 and be confident to get the point once.

Note: To realize wabi sabi  means to open a space of connotations not to point out directly to imperfection, transience etc. In the posted photographies  I see the finger, not the moon.

My stupid try? I guess, film can be helpfull...

 

Ohne Titel by Martin Hufnagel, auf Flickr

 

 

 

 


 
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vor 3 Minuten schrieb Gerbs:

A beautiful photograph, but it seems much more pure Zen than Wabi-Sabi. Really lovely. And the light bokeh dot just completes it. Maybe we need a Zen thread also!

There are no separate categories like "Zen" and "wabi-sabi".

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4 minutes ago, docmarten said:

To realize the principles of wabi-sabi in an art work is hard to achieve and exeptional. If (you) succeed everybody will see it like an arrow hits the target. Without the cultural backgroung (not just by birth but by studying) it is impossible to picture. 

But: Photography is the only medium in which art can happen by chance.

That means: Study hard (! not "Wikipedia" 😉 and be confident to get the point once.

Note: To realize wabi sabi  means to open a space of connotations not to point out directly to imperfection, transience etc. In the posted photographies  I see the finger, not the moon.

My stupid try?

 

Ohne Titel by Martin Hufnagel, auf Flickr

 

 

 

 



 

Not a bad stupid try. I think the photograph itself is more wabi sabi than the subject matter is, so it becomes almost an abstraction of wabi sabi, to my way of thinking. That might mean that your photograph is at a higher level of wabi sabi. If there was a bit more inherent beauty in the chips, to match the inherent beauty of the surface... well then it might have gone from stupid to sublime. That's a compliment, by the way.

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9 minutes ago, docmarten said:

There are no separate categories like "Zen" and "wabi-sabi".

True, they are human constructions that don't have anything to do with living in the moment and being receptive to everything around you, but they are useful words when hoping to communicate, each with different nuances. The Tao that can be defined is not the Tao. People still write books about Taoism, and Zen, and Wabi Sabi. I am a big fan of Zen.            :)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        !

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vor 2 Minuten schrieb Gerbs:

Not a bad stupid try. I think the photograph itself is more wabi sabi than the subject matter is, so it becomes almost an abstraction of wabi sabi, to my way of thinking. That might mean that your photograph is at a higher level of wabi sabi. If there was a bit more inherent beauty in the chips, to match the inherent beauty of the surface... well then it might have gone from stupid to sublime. That's a compliment, by the way.

Got it, thank you! But I am far from understanding and it is much easier to discuss the topic in its negation.

Something about form (inherent beauty) by D.T Suzuki: The perfection of form distracts from  meaning (or so, I reach the borders of my english knowledges). 

Something practical to start with: http://rinkokawauchi.com/en/

 

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Despite the drought, these lichen on a dock railing are happy!

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Perfect imperfection.  A Volkswagen Type 2 split-window dump truck aging in a field near Bad Camberg, Germany. S500

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vor 2 Minuten schrieb Gerbs:

Pirsig. And I shoot a bow and arrow too. Just doing that a few minutes ago.

That leads to another author who influenced my way of thinking: Eugen Herrigel (German): Zen und die Kunst des Bogenschiessens.

But we are off topic (or is it part of studying the grounds of "wabi-sabi"...?).

 

 

 

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vor 10 Minuten schrieb m410:

Perfect imperfection.  A Volkswagen Type 2 split-window dump truck aging in a field near Bad Camberg, Germany. S500

 

Nice finding, but, to quote myself: "To realize wabi sabi  means to open a space of connotations not to point out directly to imperfection, transience etc. "

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I dare to show my shy attempts

 

Am Rhein lll by Martin Hufnagel, auf Flickr

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Aha, thanks, I now begin to know what you want to say.
And I am delighted that interested and informed people are posting in this thread.
I want to learn. I am fascinated by ZEN, Wabi Sabi, and Haiku also touches me.

And, yes, I will try!

Andreas

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