Kintsukuroi: the art of repairing broken pottery with powdered gold or platinum mixed with lacquer; the repair reflects the history of breakage. The “repaired” object mirrors the fragility and imperfection of life & also its beauty & strength. The object returns to wholeness.
The “golden repair” is not hidden. It shows a vessel’s undisguised damage, combining ordinary stuff & precious metals to repair the brokenness. but not hiding it. This is how transformation happens by incorporating the suffering into a stronger material, the material of goodness.
From Joan Halifax Tweet
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