fair dinkum

A gondola's eye view of the Australian sky, January 2006

Wabi-sabi. Kinda sounds like something Aussies would say, doesn't it?

In reality, it's a form of art that is imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. It's organic art; it's found in nature.

I took this picture while riding a gondola up into some Australian mountains this winter. It was so cool - the sky was so blue that it matched the color of the ocean. They practically blended into each other. It was hard to tell where one ended and the other began.

What makes it wabi-sabi, I think, is the fact that the sky and water will probably never really look like that again. The wind will move the clouds, which will either cover or brighten the sun, which will change the color of both the ocean and the sky. Really, the moment captured in that photo will never happen again, being that you can't pose clouds or water.

Totally organic and unique. That's why wabi-sabi is cool.

Cheers.

(fair dinkum: Austrailian for true, genuine)