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Kintsukuroi
Kintsukuroi
Photographic Mixed Media
2023

Kintsukuroi (金繕い, "golden repair") is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum.

As a philosophy, it brings honor and dignity to the broken; treating breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.