wabi sabi

i came across a website today while trying to find a stone pond for the garden. it deals with wabi-sabi philosophy in art and included some beautiful images
"The rock garden at Ryoan-ji, a zen temple in Kyoto, Japan. The temple’s rock garden believed to have been built in the 13th century features 15 rocks so placed that the viewer can only ever sight 14 rocks from any one perspective. Tradition states that only through enlightenment is one able to see all 15."
this too,
"What's so special about the garden at Ryoanji?"
"The spaces between the rocks" - in Looking for the Lost: Journeys through a Vanishing Japan, by Alan Booth

this spider web which looks so much like an andy golds-worthy.
it reminds me too of work by sue pedley, sound of bamboo and sound of lotus - scarlet yarn threaded through bamboo reeds, a rake and scrabbling scribbling down stone steps.

and i love the beautiful twee-ness of this ikebana. it has the quality of cupcakes.