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Wabi-Sabi

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2014-07-16
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Appreciating the aesthetics of brokenness and decay in suburban Yorkshire.

Decrepit Warburton's lorry
Decrepit Warburton’s lorry

 

Flaking paint textures
Flaking paint textures

Wabi-sabi is a Japanese concept, an appreciation of beauty in imperfection, seen for example in reconstructing tea cups from broken crockery fragments, contrasting with Western ideals of unblemished perfection.

aesthetics, broken, suburban, wabi-sabi, Yorkshire

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