About
“A sensitivity to things” is a translation of the Japanese phrase“mono no aware,” which together with“wabi-sabi” forms the prevailing aesthetic of beauty in Japan. It can also be translated as the“ah-ness” of things, of life and of love, and describes beauty as an awareness of the transience of all things, and a gentle sadness at their passing. As a philosophy, mono no aware can be sourced to Zen Buddhism, and kind of sums up my world-view.
In the not so beautiful real world, I am a New Zealand based writer and designer with a love of writing and a practise of meditation. A member of the Sri Chinmoy Meditation Centre, I attempted poetry once and keep on practising writing. I build websites and shoot videos in my spare time, and occasionally go for a run.
A theatre and film graduate from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; director, editor, cinematographer, writer and very occasional actor, I combine a knowledge of pre-modern French and German artistic cinema with a total disdain for the entire oeuvre, a dismissive attitude I elaborated fully in the pre-doctoral highlight of my brief academic career—”The Needle in the Haystack Theory (1995)”, a scathing dissertation on the futility of intellectual myopicism yet to be fully recognised.
Contact me: moc.sgnihtotytivitisnes@liam
