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Dialogue with Reclaimed Wood
Scattered throughout the city are large metal skips — industrial containers filled mostly with materials discarded during renovations. I climb into these skips myself, and enter into a dialogue with what I find there. Shapes, scratches, deterioration, texture — each piece is a wholly unique material. Every one of them bears traces of having shared time with someone, somewhere. They carry layers of time and story. In them, wabi-sabi dwells.
The destiny of encountering these materials at that specific moment, in that specific place — a meeting that could never happen elsewhere — carries the spirit of ichigo-ichie. I pick up what calls to me, what feels like go-en. I wash it — a misogi, a purification. Then, through the practice of Cosmic Rhythm, I sublimate it into a work of art.
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How I breathe life into reclaimed wood.