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Leonard Koren: Wabi-sabi for artists, designers, poets & philosophers (1994, Stone Bridge Press)

Describes the principles of wabi-sabi, a Japanese aesthetic associated with Japanese tea ceremonies and based …

“Wabi-sabi suggests that beauty is a dynamic event that occurs between you and something else. Beauty can spontaneously occur at any moment given the proper circumstances, context, or point of view. Beauty is thus an altered state of consciousness, an extraordinary moment of poetry and grace.”