Rustic “simple, artless, unsophisticated, rough surfaces or irregulars”. Representation of gross objects, simple, unpretentious, made with natural materials. It is an aesthetic ideal that believes in the uncontrollability of nature, where the imperfection is an ideal to be pursued, where there is no eternity, but where there is a season for everything.
Why an old and imperfect object is more mysterious than a new and perfect one? Because it carries with it a history, a past, a story to tell. In front of scares, fissures, rifts we use our imaginations to understand what has happened.
Rustic patina concept is this: admiration through investigation.