THEME: Broken, fractured, damaged, smashed, made whole, mended, repaired, bonded, unbroken, endless, connecting, continuous.
INSPIRATION: Kintsukuroi/Kintsugi – to repair with gold – the Japanese art of repairing pottery with gold and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken. The idea is that something broken/damaged is made more beautiful by repair. Through Kintsugi the cracks and seams are merely a symbol of an event that happened in the life of the object, rather than the cause of its destruction.
“It is the philosophical concept of Kintsugi that fascinates me – that of something damaged, by the event of being broken, becomes more perfect.” Priscilla Purcell
