Title: BEAUTY_02

Year: 2018

Size: 90x120 cm

Description:
This Kanji character　[美] (beauty) is consists of [羊] (sheep) and [大]　(great/big).
[羊] represents animal sheep, and [大] represents man stretching out one's arms, which means huge. Combining these two, this character shows a big and great sheep. In ancient China, sheep were the most important livestock, and then the concept of great and beautiful, and delicious was born from here.
In Japan, Wabi-Sabi is known as one of the unique aesthetic concepts. Zen thought underlaying this concept of beauty. In Zen, people find beauty in simplicity, transience, imperfection, and humbleness.