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When perfectionism kills the soul of your craft

I keep trying to fix every little imperfection in my ceramics and now they look sterile and lifeless compared to the wonky ones I made when I first started.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The pursuit of technical mastery has severed their connection to the beauty found in natural imperfection.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Japanese aesthetics — wabi-sabi mono no aware yugen?”

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