Imperfection sometimes gives beauty somewhere to breathe.
CREATIVITY
WHAT THIS MEANS
Total polish leaves nowhere for the eye to rest and nothing for the mind to do. The mark of the hand, the slight asymmetry, the thing that was not corrected: those give a work air. They are also what makes it feel made by someone rather than generated.
When you finish something, consider stopping one step before perfect. Leave the visible seam. It is usually the element people describe when they tell you what they liked, though they rarely know that is what they are pointing at.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which imperfection of yours do people seem to warm to?
MORE IN PARADOX, METAPHOR & FOOD FOR THOUGHT
- You spend your whole life inside a body you can only see partially without assistance.
- Your normal day contains technology ancient kings could not have imagined and problems they would instantly recognize.
- You are somebody else’s background character while experiencing yourself as the center of an entire universe.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.