One of the oldest presentations of wabi-sabi is known as kintsugi or “golden scars.” This is the practice of filling cracks with gold fillings.

Wabi sabi art is a distillation of their humble efforts to try and express, in a physical form, their love of life balanced against the sense of serene sadness that is life’s inevitable passing. As the artistic mouthpiece of the Zen movement, wabi sabi art embodies the lives of the monks and is built on the precepts of simplicity, humility, restrai