Your challenge is to create a piece that has the feeling of Wabi-Sabi
3 Elements of wabi-sabi: Nothing lasts. Nothing is finished. Nothing is perfect.
While the aesthetic categories of wabi ( 詫び ), “rustic beauty,” and sabi ( 寂び ), “desolate beauty,” can be treated separately, they are ultimately complimentary concepts that support a coherent aesthetic sense. The qualities usually associated with wabi and sabi are: (1) austerity, (2) imperfection, and (3) a sense of the passage of time.
Rough textures, minimally processed goods, natural materials, and subtle hues are all wabi-sabi.
Look for the wabi-sabi beauty in both nature and made things…worn, torn, frayed, cracked, chipped, wobbly, patched, incomplete, ruins, rusty, old, pitted, wrinkled, patina, earthy, peeling layers, evidence of lives lived, weathered, and crooked. Concepts associated with wabi-sabi, including the beauty of things imperfect, modest, and unconventional; the value of intuitive and idiosyncratic art forms; and an orientation toward process rather than the product.
Leonard Koren, in his book Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, describes the following material qualities of wabi-sabi: asymmetry, asperity, simplicity, modesty, intimacy, and the suggestion of a natural process.
Serena Barton, in her book Wabi-Sabi Art Workshop, describes wabi-sabi as an aesthetic that values the passing of time, the seasoning of time and the elements, the handmade and the simple. The wabi-sabi outlook accepts that we are all impermanent on this earth and that the most important thing in life is to be fully present in the moment.
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