Saturday, July 1, 2017

zingREPAIR C1990


When you buy a house and the owner before last leaves you an ASHpan that you can also use to pick up 'doggy-dooz' you have something of real value. When the dog chews the handle it is really, really annoying until there's this apple tree branch that's much better than a 'bought-one' IF you can find one– and better than the one that the dog chewed. 

At this point a repair can become a real treasure. The aesthetic at wortk is known INhouse as RSB (Robust Strong & Beautiful) AKA 'rip-shit-and-bust'






Sunday, March 5, 2017

Perfectly imperfect







At its simplest, wabi-sabi is an aesthetic ideal that stresses the authentic over the artificial, the worn over the new, and the imperfect over the ideal. Wabi (侘) can refer to the imperfections of objects, the simplicity of everyday items that fulfill a function rather than a form. Sabi (寂) brings to mind wear and tear that reminds us that nothing last forever and that signs of age on an object might actually help us appreciate its value that much more. After all, nothing lasts forever, and items - both natural and man-made - experience their own lives as they are created and fall into decay. The authenticity of existence is what wabi-sabi is all about: imperfectionauthenticity, and impermanence.

NOTrubbish but dumped

http://notrubbish.blogspot.com.au/p/rubbish-or-resource.html