Wabi Sabi by Kazuhiro Tanimoto

Art Blocks Collection: Presents Project Description: Wabi-sabi, an ancient Japanese aesthetic sense, refers to finding beauty in imperfect and lonely things. Life is irrational and ephemeral. Peace and happiness are illusory, built on a fragile balance. Wabi-sabi is an immersion of the quality of loneliness within ourselves that accepts various nuances to be beautiful, through a sophisticated lens. This work attempts to store the compelling concept of Wabi-sabi on the blockchain as the code dynamically generates brushstrokes based on motifs of Shodo (Japanese calligraphy) Wabi-sabi begins with a deliberate movement in which an ink-soaked brush is plopped down onto the paper, causing the ...View all