Morrison with his masterpiece...
... artis! Art for the sake of art, but if truth be told, it was much more than just this philosophy. What the evening was really about mistakes. Led by the biggest devotee of Wabi Sabi on Notre Dame's campus, Josh Blossfeld, Stedsmen learned of Japanese artistic concept focusing on imperfections, acknowledging the beauty in the imperfect, impermanent, and the incomplete. Blowing paint through straws, Stedsmen created multicolored masterpieces that not only captured their joie de vivre and the espirit de corp of Steds but also the hidden beauty of the imperfections, mistakes, errors, ugliness... everything wrong... with their art. Participating in the art dojo of Sensei Blossfeld, Alex Morrison, Steds sophomore and resident Indianian, shared, "Bloss was the best Wabi Sabi instructor we could have asked for - he taught us how to calm ourselves through using bendy straws to blow some paint around sheets of paper. In the words of Robert Mulqueen, follow Stedsmen, who quoted Styx, 'Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto.''
... while aspiring artists give it a go...
...grabbing straws, paint and their hot air...
...to create works...
... that are beautiful in a Wabi Sabi sort of way!
