This is genius. Created by the Japanese it is the aesthetic of something described as one of beauty that is imperfect, impermanent or incomplete and it fixes your precious broken piece and makes it like new again. You feel so much better and you don't have to throw away the piece that you love. It looks terrific too. There are many how to videos on You tube to follow.
I just bought a small tin of gold paint and mixed some with glue and voila -all better.
It is a Buddhist concept teaching of the three marks of existence, specifically impermanence, suffering and emptiness or absence of self nature.
Kintsugi.
Much the same it is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold, silver, or Platinum. It treats breakages and repairs as part of the history of the object, rather than something to hide.
Embracing the flawed or imperfect.
It can be looked at as a rationale for keeping the object even after it is broken and as a justification of Kintsugi itself, highlighting the cracks and repairs simply as an event in the life of the object rather than allowing it's service to end at the time of it's breakage or damage.
Here are some examples of my work.
Please try this art form and see what you think. You may be delightfully surprised with the results.
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