Do you look at this image and think – “those shutters could do with a lick of paint”?
I kind of hope you don’t!
Isn’t there a beauty here?
And isn’t part of that beauty the way the world has changed these shutters over the years? People talk about the French aesthetic of “shabby chic” – I’m not sure this is exactly that but it’s pretty common to stumble across examples like this in France.
I wonder if this aesthetic is linked to a Japanese aesthetic about transience, change and the beauty of the “patina of age”.
For me, it certainly touches that “becoming not being” quality that I love so much.
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