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.