♠️Kintsugi♠️
not-so-subtle
A japanese art of repairing broken pieces of pottery by mending the area of breakage with powdered gold, silver or platinum.
Gold,silver or platinum is used to not just repair the pieces but to illuminate the cracks. In a way that looks different and beautiful.
Philosophically, kintsugi means that treating breakage and repair as part of history of an objec,rather than something to disguise.
Broken is beautiful
We all are broken and damage. We had aur past haunting us, reminding mistakes and stopping us frok moving ahead.
We are at that stage that a wholeness is what we are looking for.
But what is this feeling of wholeness? Does this feeling means that we'll be stripped of our mistakes and flaws and would be in a state of constant happiness.
Then it brings us to our Second question, that is-
Is happiness a forever phenomena or a moment phenomenon?
As we cherish moments in our heart. The broken parts are you and mistakes are your journey that has brought you here and held you together.
Art reflects our life, we all get hammered and sit with our broken pieces and find a way to redefine what wholeness look like and tries to make our life beautiful with broken pieces.
Because broken pieces are yours to cherish.
Those lowest and highest moment of your life is all enclosed in those pieces. Those pieces are yours to love with all the love you can muster. Because it requires courage to love as time heals you, people leaves you, but these pieces stay with you. Because these are you
So, mend these broken pieces with gold and silver, sparkle it, illuminate your flaws.
Kin means Golden tsugi means rejoining.
It is like bringing the broken part of ourselves together.
To perform this art
• We take a ceramic bowl representing some aspects of yourself.
• second in the need is cloth - representing things that has held you. It can be faith, mothers love, inner resilience to break off from your current situation. So,wrap the cloth around the bowl.
• the hammer - Represent change that is constant in our lives. These changes either can destroy you or build you.
So think about hammer in your life story- what are the things that come and hit you.
• hit your bowl with hammer and feel the brokenness without rushing to fix it. As human tendency is to always to fix mistakes and clean it because we don't want our flaws to be seen by anybody.
Now, survey the pieces as they are, look at each pieces.
••Glue:- It is all about chemical coming together to hold the disparate pieces.
Healing takes place through connection and not with perfection.
••Once the bowl is set and glued them comes the filing. It not an effortful process but a gentle filing. Smoothing over the excess what you don't need anymore.
The holes and cracks that you see in your bowl can be spaces for new information or loss that you felt.
•Gold - it is like mapping out your journey. Celebrating the journey with gold or silver of what you went through and how you did this.
There are a few major styles of kintsugi:
•Crack (ひび), the use of gold dust and resin to mend broken pieces with minimal overlap or fill-in from missing pieces
•Piece method (欠けの金継ぎ例), where a replacement ceramic fragment is not available and the entirety of the addition is gold or gold/lacquer compound
•Joint call (呼び継ぎ), where a similarly shaped but non-matching fragment is used to replace a missing piece from the original vessel creating a patchwork effect.
Kintsugi is the general concept of highlighting or emphasizing imperfections, visualizing mends and seams as an additive or an area to celebrate or focus on, rather than absence or missing pieces. Modern artists experiment with the ancient technique as a means of analyzing the idea of loss, synthesis, and improvement through destruction and repair or rebirth.
How can something be ugly when it is all so shiny and beautiful.
The person who need immense love is YOU. You need it for yourself. This art is all about showcasing and highlighting those points in your life where you were at lowest and celebrating it.
Because you are so beautiful that you need to be cherished.
YOU ARE READING
Voice of the Wild | Blogs
Random~Our blog book is a collection of answers people don't want to hear questions they didn't ask.~ "If you can't speak out loud, then write out loud." To Inspire. To Create. To Empower. To Educate. Indian Legion presents to you Voice of The Wild, an...
