“The quality that we call beauty, however, must always grow from the realities of life, and our ancestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover beauty in shadows, ultimately to guide shadows towards beauty’s ends.”
Tanizaki suggests that beauty emerges from accepting and working with the inherent conditions of life, rather than attempting to alter them.
What is one way you can actively choose shadow, subtlety, or unfinished beauty this week?