wabi-sabi bench

"In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi (侘寂) is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection.[2] The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete".[3] It is a concept derived from the Buddhist teaching of the three marks of existence (三法印 sanbōin), specifically impermanence (無常 mujō), suffering (苦 ku) and emptiness or absence of self-nature (空 kū)."

the weather, the use, the 'suffering' experienced by this rescued plank made sure it is in line with this concept of imperfection, asymmetry, roughness, simplicity wabi-sabi entails. i designed and build this legs to honour its qualities, making sure to get it clean, to stabilise the cracks and remove any splinter, but nothing else.

i want to fill the cracks with mastic and then platte it with golden or silver leave, coming soon...