GrainStain Arts^® has a quiet underpinning. It is a triad experience within the work,
a feeling and quality— coined by Cruz as wàsayū_™, inspired by:

Wabi-sabi and Yūgen are far more than the explanations on this page. If you go to Japan and ask wabi-sabi to be explained to you, you’ll find that many will find it challenging to translate. That is because it’s a concept that is lived and felt, not talked about. It's an inner feeling in relationship to something experienced. There is also no Western word of equivalence. These concepts are not physical, they are intangibles. Below are ways these relationships function within Cruz's work.

Working with wood is to partner with the life of a tree, to see beauty in its bloom and its passing. Wood is imperfect. Its natural curves, organic indents and lines are all unique to one tree, not a mass production of the flawless. Instead, it is perfectly imperfect.

There is nothing like a tree. It is still, yet it also moves. Moreover, if we are still, it can move us. Signs of its long faithful life are present, experienced times that are unknown to us. A tree's lines, grain, colour and scent induces our response— now we are in awareness. A deep feeling that touches the human experience with profound moments that are unutterable... it feels like grace.

united within Cruz' work, these are the quiet...

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein