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The Tree That Feel From A Tree

by Rob Pearce

(lots #4o7)

Twenty years ago, in his Ripped Faces 8008 km series, Rob Pearce
captured the beauty of Jakarta in photographs of the riot of plastered
posters and urban grime ubiquitous to the city. Inspired, he creates
unique art on his garden walls. He uses a scalpel to carve into layers of
selected text, images and paper exposing the meaning below

The Tree That Fell From A Tree

Dewi Sri is casting a magic spell but her world is changing. A new era
is about to dawn in Java, and although it will take centuries, her power
will eventually fade.

I had been so frustrated with this piece that I bored holes in it and
hauled it up the highest tree in my garden. Some months later, I heard
a loud crash. The wood around the hooks had rotted through and it
had fallen to the ground like a ripe fruit. Wabi-Sabi.

The text is from Babad Tanah Jawi and Clifford Geertz’s Religion of Java.

Wabi-Sabi is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and
imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty
that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”.

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