kintsugi

A further element of kintsugi is maki-e, the gradual accumulation of surface effects impressed, as it were, upon the dozens of thin coats of lacquer resin (although I think they are built up by means of the brush), for example a vibrant network of minuscule leaves and flowers.

Broken China 2009

A further element of kintsugi is maki-e, the gradual accumulation of surface effects impressed, as it were, upon the dozens of thin coats of lacquer resin (although I think they are built up by means of the brush), for example a vibrant network of minuscule leaves and flowers.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

However, for centuries in Japan they preferred to take advantage of ceramic misadventure by actually drawing attention to it by means of kintsugi, especially when the new aesthetic element thus added either comments on, converges, or even elides with the shape and colour of the original vessel — making it look even more beautiful and, incidentally, valuable than before.

Broken China 2009

However, for centuries in Japan they preferred to take advantage of ceramic misadventure by actually drawing attention to it by means of kintsugi, especially when the new aesthetic element thus added either comments on, converges, or even elides with the shape and colour of the original vessel — making it look even more beautiful and, incidentally, valuable than before.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

I became fascinated by kintsugi, the Japanese craft of mending ceramics with gold lacquer resin, so cracks and fissures are transformed into a web of tiny golden veins.

Melanie Drane: "There Is a Crack in Everything; That's How the Light Gets in" 2009

She writes about kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with gold-streaked lacquer, tying the craft cleverly to the work of recovering from sadness—honoring, not hiding, the things that happened to you.

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