Architecture
Things wabi-sabi have a vague, blurry, or attenuated quality – as things do as they approach nothingness (or some out of it). Once- hard edges take on a soft pale glow. Once substantial materiality appears almost sponge-like. Once bright saturated colors fade into muddy earth tones or the smoky hues of dawn and dusk.
In the context of wabi-sabi “nature” means several things. It refers to the dimension of physical reality untouched by humans: things in their pure original state. In this sense, nature means things of the earth like plans, animals, mountains, rivers and the forces – sometimes benign, sometimes violent – of wind, rain, fire and so on. But nature in the context of wabi-sabi also encompasses the human mind and all of its “unnatural” thoughts and creations. In this sense nature implies “all that exists”, including the underlying principles of existence.
Leonard Koren
