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This project is about a Japanese concept called wabi-sabi. In general, wabi-sabi can be understood as an aesthetic philosophy centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. Wabi-sabi is about seeing the beauty in the incompleteness, imperfection, and impermanence of things. In one of the programs from the BBC Four channel called “Tracing Wabi-sabi”, the reporter made a quick survey by asking people he met in Japan to describe wabi-sabi to him. However, the only answer the reporter got from the Japanese was that wabi-sabi simply surpassed all the usual interpretations of language. Therefore, the intention of this project is not to explain wabi-sabi in words but more of creating a space that can evoke the sense of wabi-sabi and somehow lead the audience to randomly see the wabi-sabi in/around them. This is because everyone who incorporates wabi- sabi into their lives has different interpretations of wabi-sabi. 

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