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<p>[QUOTE="wlwhittier, post: 7954366, member: 76316"]I respectfully submit that <i>NO</i> art is perfect. The Japanese have a phrase Wabi-sabi...an' I'm sure the examples I've posted here aren't strictly worthy of the term, but there is in me a lot of room to acknowledge an' accept the amateurish as a point on a line to highly accomplished. Whoever made these sconces did, in my opinion, a fine job. Even though those scribed lines may offend as sloppy, they indicate to me intent at a reasonable precision.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a remnant of a wooden framed small lantern. On it are the scribed lines used by the maker to locate relief cuts for the door hinges...long before pencils were used for such. I treasure it as much <i>for</i> these marks as for the other aspects indicative of its antiquity, among them a slab-poured glass pane with serious imperfections on both faces. Somehow, for me, perfection ain't ultimately perfect. Nothing in nature is...why should utilitarian craft be so?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="wlwhittier, post: 7954366, member: 76316"]I respectfully submit that [I]NO[/I] art is perfect. The Japanese have a phrase Wabi-sabi...an' I'm sure the examples I've posted here aren't strictly worthy of the term, but there is in me a lot of room to acknowledge an' accept the amateurish as a point on a line to highly accomplished. Whoever made these sconces did, in my opinion, a fine job. Even though those scribed lines may offend as sloppy, they indicate to me intent at a reasonable precision. I have a remnant of a wooden framed small lantern. On it are the scribed lines used by the maker to locate relief cuts for the door hinges...long before pencils were used for such. I treasure it as much [I]for[/I] these marks as for the other aspects indicative of its antiquity, among them a slab-poured glass pane with serious imperfections on both faces. Somehow, for me, perfection ain't ultimately perfect. Nothing in nature is...why should utilitarian craft be so?[/QUOTE]
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