Ain't no way bro they turned wabi sabi into a marketable aesthetic😭
Why do you try to your home look beautiful instead of seeing the beauty already in it? Why buy more mass manufactured decor to make The Perfect Home? Why always striving for more, better, faster, cheaper, and sellable? WHY DO YOU PURSUE PERFECTION WHICH CAN'T BE ACHIEVED? Are the trees around not perfect? When you look at a shell, is it not beautiful on it's own??
Why can't we accept that we are not perfect, and maybe that's not a bad thing?
I see people asking “Should I get a grey shelf or a white shelf, because my shelf isn't wabi sabi enough?” Or asking “How do I do the wabi sabi style correctly?” The furniture looks “ugly”, but in a pretty way. It's not too lopsided, or too broken, or too discoloured, or too old or cracked or rusty. It's a polished form of “imperfection” that strives to look “simple and human” while still being good enough to be in a house magazine. It's like how in movies, the ugly person is never actually ugly. It sends the message “It's ok to be imperfect, but only if it still looks good enough to sell”
Same idea as how on TV, when they show someone crying, they always look beautiful, with makeup on and perfect skin. They never show the ugly crying. They make a fake kind of “Ugly” that looks attractive. It's fake trying to look real.
