Falling Star / Rising Tide: Sun.Contemporary Gallery-Bali View all works from this exhibition here.

21 / 11 / 24 - 26 / 01 / 25
An exhibition of natural pigment paintings by Ricky Lee Gordon. Exploring the connection between human experience, landscape, storytelling and painting.

Recently I was gifted a book tittled Wabi Sabi for artists, poets & philosophers. Written by Leonard Koren and published by Imperfect Publishers.
I wish to share some of the essence as a kind of field guide for any inspiring artist or art enthusiast: I hope for people viewing my work to have a
shared part of the experience, a feedback loop.

“The initial inspirations for Wabi Sabi’s metaphysical, spiritual and moral principles come from ideas about simplicity, naturalness, and acceptance of reality found in Taoism and Chinese Zen Buddhism.

The wabi sabi state of mind and sense of materiality both derive from the atmosphere of desolation and melancholy and the expression of minimalism.

Non-thinking repetition of mechanical forms allows one to concentrate simply on being without the distraction of having to make decisions, artistic or otherwise.”

The form of Wabi Sabi

-Metaphysical basis

Things are either devolving forward or evolving from nothingness

Spiritual values

-Truth comes from the observation of nature

Greatness exists in the inconspicuous and overlooked details

-Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness

State of mind

-Acceptance of the inevitable

- Appreciation of the cosmic order

Moral precepts

-Get rid of all that is unnecessary

-Focus on the intrinsic and ignore material hierarchy

The suggestion of a natural process, an aesthetic system.”