Wabisabi is a japanese philosophy that nurtures all the authenic by acknowledging three realites:
nothing lasts
nothing is finished
and nothing is perfect

To accept these realies is to acknowledge that clarity and grace can be found in unvarnished existance, in the creation and recognition of beauty in all life, valuing imperfection as much as what might be considered, perfection.

The theme for Burning Man 2006 was Hope AND Fear; The Future. I seemed to me that this theme was asking us to acknowedge both aspects rin paradoxical harmony rather than chose one side.

The images created here utiized the intense power of the green goddess, Wasabi, to invoke the intensity of all possible emotion.

I found the experience of witnessing this process of "moving through" intensity and the resulting images to defy definition of being either hope or fear; to be in defiance of the limitations of an absolute.

And so it is that Wasabi, held in the state of Wasi Sabi, brings forward the essence of paradox that shows us that where negative forces exist so do positive, and where positive forces exist, as do negative.

"When both sides of any polarity are experienced as equal in value, a transformation begins; an alchemical union of opposites. One outcome of this union is an expanded experience of who we are, as well as more flexibility in the way we think about ourselves." Antero Alli