Nepenthe Gallery Show

After a two-week spring trip to Japan, and a winter of doing deep dives into traditional Japanese poetic forms of tanka and haiku, I’m working toward an understanding of art as a representation of singular moments of both immediate presence and a larger context of wholeness. The Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi describes the ordinary beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. Who’s to say what beauty we will find in the ordinary things we come upon, the repeated cycles of the natural landscape, and how these temporary vistas leave their impressions upon our lives?