Allison Driesenga

Blending The Medium between Wabi Sabi and Modernist Design

Allison Driesenga

“A true revelation, it seems to me, will only emerge from stubborn concentration on a solitary problem.

I am not in league with inventors or adventurers, nor with travelers to exotic destinations. The surest—also the quickest—way to awake the sense of wonder in ourselves is to look intently, undeterred, at a single object. Suddenly, miraculously, it will reveal itself as something we have never seen before.”

—Cesare Pavese, Dailoghi con Leuco, 1947

“A true revelation, it seems to me, will only emerge from stubborn concentration on a solitary problem. I am not in league with inventors or adventurers, nor with travelers to exotic destinations.

The surest—also the quickest—way to awake the sense of wonder in ourselves is to look intently, undeterred, at a single object. Suddenly, miraculously, it will reveal itself as something we have never seen before.”

—Cesare Pavese, Dailoghi con Leuco,

1947

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