10 artmaking activities inspired by artworks in the MCA Collection

the body and technology

This walking wind machine walks around leisurely

clasped in a claw nest

their blossoms don’t contain petals but rather brightly coloured stamens

Wabi Sabi For Artists Designers Poets & Philosophers meta-mca-catalogue 10 artmaking activities inspired byWabi sabi is the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of what we think of as traditional Japanese beauty. Wabi sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete it could even be called the 'Zen of things' as it exemplifies many of Zen's core spiritual philosophical tenets. Wabi sabi, in its purest, most idealized form, is precisely about the delicate traces, the faint evidence, at the borders of nothingness. This is an updated