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When perfectionism destroys the beauty of imperfection

I threw away a painting I worked on for months because it had one brushstroke that felt wrong and now I cannot stop thinking about how perfect it was except for that one mark.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You are rejecting the essential nature of wabi-sabi by demanding flawlessness where beauty lives in the flawed.

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Worth thinking about

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

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