Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Rotten Beauty



"The pieces are made by using rotten fruits.Casting them helped me to capture and save their extraordinary textures just at the time when they are the most beautiful..." Karmen Saat

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

...and so much new

A)

New Kintsugi, gold repair from Humade on Vimeo.

"Next to a piece of pottery’s earthen-colored clay, the kintsugi gold cuts through, providing a sporadic action that arrests the eyes. Gopnik describes it as “a tiny moment of free jazz played during a fugue by Bach.”...In a modernized twist on this tradition, designer Lotte Dekker encourages people to break pottery in her workshops. Dekker has created her own kintsugi-style repair kits..."(more)

C) "In Kintsugi, Thomas Meyer has written an intimate elegy for his partner of nearly four decades. As Robert Kelly observes in his foreword, this is “a text written in and through the very death it mourned.” (more)
 
Hundreds more of this theme...an old idea hardly forgotten...so many latching on to an idea, a philosophy of mending...why is that?  maybe we feel that for some reason we need it.  it resonates because it awakens a very human desire...to fix, to repair, to mend, to keep, and to continue.

old

TEABOWL (chawan), 15th century, Tokoname ware (yobitsugi-repairs with 18th century porcelain), H.: 2 1/4 in. (5.9 cm), D.: 6 1/2 in. (16.4 cm

TEABOWL (chawan), 16th century, Karatsu ware, H.: 2 5/8 in. (6.8 cm), D.: 4 in. (10.2 cm

kintsugi:  "to patch with gold" or kintsukuroi: “to repair with gold”
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

past tense

Barbara Shapiro
"Mended Turnings"



collaborative work with Chuck Quibell. "Artists are profoundly aware of the preciousness of natural materials...some of these pieces were destined to be burned, and I wanted to save them..."