BEAUTY_39

In this work, I deliberately damaged the piece I had drawn. Some parts of the damaged paper are torn. When such damage is done, many artworks simply become trash. However, I believe that the most beautiful form of beauty exists just before something turns into trash. The line between the most exquisite beauty and trash is truly razor-thin. This piece miraculously remains in that most beautiful state—preserved right at the very edge of becoming trash. It is one of the works in my series called "Eve of Collapse".

I wrote the character "美”, meaning "beauty". The concept of wabi-sabi, known as a traditional Japanese aesthetic, is deeply rooted in Zen philosophy. In Zen, beauty is found in what has been stripped of excess, in what is transient, and in what is incomplete and modest.