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Why minimalism: A history, practice and industry

Life Examined

CHAPTER

The Importance of Individualism in American Culture

There's this mode of contrast or like contrast as a aesthetic strategy, where in a rock garden, you have the rippling field of small rocks that might represent nothingness. And then you have the one singular, larger rock emerging out of that. The message is kind of that anyone can build their own space in the world with their own two hands and we can and should create ourselves.

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