Our pottery group has been working together for two years and we used to have these beautiful conversations about mono no aware and the fleeting nature of our pieces. Now we're preparing for our first exhibition and suddenly everyone is trying to make their work more permanent and gallery-worthy and we've lost that sense of embracing transience that brought us together.
More people experience this than they realize.
A creative cohort discovers that their shared aesthetic values become fragile when faced with the demands of public presentation.
“Where Are You with Japanese aesthetics — wabi-sabi mono no aware yugen?”
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