wabi sabi for artists

One of my favorite books for creative inspiration is Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by  Leonard Koren. It’s a little book–a chapbook of sorts. It’s become a classic. First publisher in 1994, i is credited with bringing the Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi into western aesthetic theory. If you like the such things, I highly recommend it. Here is one of my favorite quotes from the book–and it reminds me of today’s photo.

“Pare down to the essence, but don’t remove the poetry.”
― Leonard Koren

(unidentified) winter stems