I have started a new painting series inspired by “Kintsugi” which is to patch with gold … it repairs with beauty … not trying to conceal a break … rather, it celebrates exquisite mending … understanding that we are stronger and more beautiful for having been broken … that fractures are essential moments in our history … that “the world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places”…

I was thinking about the idea of being “sundered” … torn in two … parted … shattered … like a broken bone … and I started a very big painting … but I was bothered by it because I didn’t want to end it broken … was struggling with it …

Then I got a post from a dear friend … which kinda felt like bad timing at that moment … but I opened it and it referenced an article which led to another … and several later, the text referenced Kintsugi … so I looked that up … and there was my answer …

Kin Tsugi

Golden Joinery

The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powered gold, silver, or platinum … it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.