Kintsugi av Bonnie Kemske

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<b>A stunning book on <i>kintsugi</i>, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with precious metals to highlight its history beautifully.</b>A broken pot is made whole again, and within its golden repair we see a world of meaning. Kintsugi is the art of embracing imperfection. In Western cultures, the aim of repair has been to make the broken item ¿as good as new¿. Kintsugi on the other hand, is a Japanese art that leaves an obvious repair ¿ one that may appear fragile, but which actually makes the restored ceramic piece stronger, more beautiful, and more valuable than before. Leaving clear, bold, visible lines with the appearance of solid gold, it never hides the story of the object¿s damage.Kintsugi traces memory, bringing together the moment of destruction and the gold seams of repair through finely-honed skills and painstaking, time-consuming labour in the creation of a new pot from the old. There is a story to be told with every crack, every chip. This story inevitably leads