WABI SABI
It is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay, and death. There is something beautiful about not resisting the occurrence of imperfection, decay or a glitch of any sort. The idea of perfection is quite subjecting. What is perfection for one individual might be a thought or a concept entirely absent for another individual. Perfection can be seen as a set of ideals, thoughts and more than anything a set of expectations. Expectations create an idealized outcome and everything else that is not part of your idealized expectation is just an obstacle that needs to be ironed out. It is all of those tiny little imperfections that may feel like they need to be ironed out that in fact add personality, and can often reveal more about the true essence of its particular experience or process if you stop expecting an ideal outcome and let the imperfections guide the outcome.
For the last couple weeks I found my self fascinated with electronic glitches. I spent quite some time looking at the amazing array of unexpected shapes, colors, patterns created by chance. However, it is considered a glitch, an unexpected disruption in the expected electronic performance. It made my imagination run wild thinking of all of the unexpected but insightful possibilities that imperfections could offer us, if we only embraced these imperfections for any given instance that we might come across in our lives including the creative process.
I used my own iconic image to play around. Besides the initial sketch, this image was entirely created digitally. The intention was to make this image look hand crafted and aged. Its essence is never the less still digital. Inserting digitized glitches to come through this image offers a glimpse of its true digital essence. Above all, this kind of thought process truly makes one wonder on the amount of true essence that is in reality revealed to us. To further challenge that statement in Nietzsche's manner, we should ask what is "truth", what is "reality", and in whose subjective terms are they described in?
Writing & Image : : by : : Boris Pelcer
For the last couple weeks I found my self fascinated with electronic glitches. I spent quite some time looking at the amazing array of unexpected shapes, colors, patterns created by chance. However, it is considered a glitch, an unexpected disruption in the expected electronic performance. It made my imagination run wild thinking of all of the unexpected but insightful possibilities that imperfections could offer us, if we only embraced these imperfections for any given instance that we might come across in our lives including the creative process.
I used my own iconic image to play around. Besides the initial sketch, this image was entirely created digitally. The intention was to make this image look hand crafted and aged. Its essence is never the less still digital. Inserting digitized glitches to come through this image offers a glimpse of its true digital essence. Above all, this kind of thought process truly makes one wonder on the amount of true essence that is in reality revealed to us. To further challenge that statement in Nietzsche's manner, we should ask what is "truth", what is "reality", and in whose subjective terms are they described in?
Writing & Image : : by : : Boris Pelcer
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