Imperfectly Perfect
The title of the exhibition contains within it a conundrum, for how can something be simultaneously perfect and flawed? It is on the one hand authentic and on the other entirely subjective. The acknowledgement of the 鈥渋mperfectly perfect" is a quest for beauty and joy and the liberation from a fruitless search for an ideal. The Japanese concept of wabi-sabi encourages the appreciation of imperfection, negating ideas of perfection and permanence. It is the imperfection that makes something meaningful and precious, signposting its existence, its purpose, a life lived.
The impossibility of perfection, its allure, the acceptance of its existence yet the struggle to liberate ourselves 鈥榝rom it鈥�, is a journey we spend our lives on. It drives our ambitions and desires, it straddles the realms of the social, cultural and political and the acknowledgement of imperfection as the one truth, like Megha鈥檚 burnt down incense cones, punctuates the end.
The title of the exhibition contains within it a conundrum, for how can something be simultaneously perfect and flawed? It is on the one hand authentic and on the other entirely subjective. The acknowledgement of the 鈥渋mperfectly perfect" is a quest for beauty and joy and the liberation from a fruitless search for an ideal. The Japanese concept of wabi-sabi encourages the appreciation of imperfection, negating ideas of perfection and permanence. It is the imperfection that makes something meaningful and precious, signposting its existence, its purpose, a life lived.
The impossibility of perfection, its allure, the acceptance of its existence yet the struggle to liberate ourselves 鈥榝rom it鈥�, is a journey we spend our lives on. It drives our ambitions and desires, it straddles the realms of the social, cultural and political and the acknowledgement of imperfection as the one truth, like Megha鈥檚 burnt down incense cones, punctuates the end.
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