Broken and even more beautiful
In the 15th century Japanese shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasu, sent a broken tea bowl to China to have it fixed. The bowl was returned held together with staples. Outraged the shogun set out to discover a better, more pleasing to the eye answer to repair broken pottery. His winning solution was to add gold dust to adhesive resin, so that cracks are made attractive. "When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when somethings suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful."- Barbara Bloom The technique is known as Kintsugi, "Golden Joinery" - Instead of trying to make the object look like new, and hide the cracks the focus is placed on the imperfections, they are front and center - what a beautiful metaphor for life. We all have our flaws - we've all said or did things we wish we could take back - we've all felt broken at times - Right? Well what if, instead of tr...