Ralph

To help with the meaning of wabi and sabi, it would be useful to have examples, maybe from our gallery demonstrating these concepts. I can take what I have learned from here, and my looking up the defintions, then go look at bonsai, but am I really getting it? I saw an incredible black pine at Andy's lecture last week, and to me it had wabi-sabi. Whenever I think about Asian art of any kind, I look for zen like minimalism, for a deeper story than what my eye physically sees. Really it is similar to how I interpret western art as well. For example, I can see the pain and torture in the brush strokes of a Van Gogh, I want to know more about the inspiration and the story behind the picture.