Wabi-Sabi and creating: Anna Gaskell, Shinichi Maruyama and Eric Maisel
Psychologist and creativity coach Eric Maisel refers to wabi-sabi as "the Zen aesthetic that honors that nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect."
He notes that as creators, we may intellectually accept this, but viscerally "we can hardly tolerate shortfalls. They make us want to scream... tear out our hair. They make us want to murder. They drive us mad."
But artist Shinichi Maruyama, is another who works with uncertainty and lack of control, something many of us find hard to do, especially if we tend to be obsessive and perfectionistic.
Here are examples of his high speed water and ink photography.
He says, "As a photographer my work is subconsciously influenced by the Japanese sense of beauty, which can be found in Wabi-sabi, referring to the beauty of imperfection and understated elegance."
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