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Nothing lasts nothing is finished nothing is perfect. Richard R. Powell
The two characters 䞘 (wabi) and 寂 (sabi) express a very important concept of the Japanese aesthetic and philosophical tradition. This idea is based on the acceptance of the transience of things. It is sometimes described as imperfect beauty, impermanent and incomplete.
Wabi-sabi is a temporal and spatial zoom out, distancing from the anthropocentric view and its comfort zone by comparing different transformations in nature, in man and in his works. It shows connections between such rapid and visible changes with others that take millions of years to occur. In the middle stands the human being, with its constructions and destructions, surviving only for the blink of an eye, destined to dissolve into this unending cycle.
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CAPTIONS 01 Tree section 02 Abandoned hotel 03 Ruined construction 04 Dung 05 Chycas 06 Human 07 Ruined cornice 08 Stones and roof 09 Hydrangea 10 Tree section 11 Ice-skaters tracks 12 Fern 13 Insect paths on an old piece of wood 14 Old cathedral 15 Fossil on a dinosaur footprint 16 Dung 17 Trees in the flood 18 Waste on the edge of a dam 19 Abandoned construction 20 Jellyfish
Alessandro Cristofoletti was born in Italy in 1983. He works as photographer and writer in several artistic and cultural projects. He has been developing the photographic research of WABI SABI for the last five years.
+39 349 2721043 alessandro.cristofoletti83@gmail.com alessandrocristofoletti.com