SONIA MELNIKOVA ART PHOTOGRAPHY
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About this series:
OLD THINGS is a selection of images from the LEFT BEHIND series. It reflects my strong affinity with the Japanese philosophy and aesthetics of wabi-sabi which reveres the beauty in old and hand-made things. In the words of architect Tadao Ando, “... wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature, of accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay, and death. It's simple, slow, and uncluttered — and it reveres authenticity above all. Wabi-sabi is flea markets, not warehouse stores; aged wood, not Pergo; rice paper, not glass. It celebrates cracks and crevices and all the other marks that time, weather, and loving use leave behind.” ... And this is how wabi-sabi is summarized by Andrew Juniper: “Wabi-sabi is an intuitive appreciation of a transient beauty in the physical world that reflects the irreversible flow of life in the spiritual world. It is an understated beauty that exists in the modest, rustic, imperfect, or even decayed, an aesthetic sensibility that finds a melancholic beauty in the impermanence of all things.”
Related series: LEFT BEHIND, BOTTLED PAST, GARAGE SALE