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2012/06/24

WATER AND DIAMOND: NO. 16 CREATING THE BEAUTY


In order to create the beauty of the diamonds, they need to be cut and polished.  When it is cut, a cutter has to decide which part to keep.  When polishing, s/he cuts little by little to shape it, and finish by buffing the surface.  Usually, cutters focus on making a good shape.  However, we keep in our mind the image of taking out the child of the lights which inherits in each rough diamond.   

It means that the essence of beauty is already in the rough diamonds.  Putting into a good shape doesn’t make the beauty, but we help it to come out from the stone.
As a result, it will have a beautiful shape. 

I think this is same to paintings or sculptures.  Before seeing the external beauty or pulling things into shape, one has to face the sacredness of the stone or woods in front, which is invisible.  If the artist is only focusing on the external beauty, the work will be vain and empty.

Visible shape is supported by the invisible beauty