It’s beautiful when we re-imagine what it means to be “broken”.

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This is incredibly cool: Lotte Dekker’s kits for not only repairing broken pottery, but kind of making it more awesome than ever, through a modern iteration of “kintsugi,” which Wikipedia describes as “the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with a lacquer  resin sprinkled with powdered gold.”

Cracks and the Art of Repair | The Etsy Blog, explains:

Designer Lotte Dekker, [who] encourages people to break pottery in her workshops, has created her own kintsugi-style repair kits containing Bison glue and an inexpensive gold powder (see video ).

These kits may not be the real deal, but they encourage artists and non-artists alike to explore the art of repair.

Dekker’s technique promotes the creation of new forms, where broken shards of pottery come together to form a new, almost animated shape, similar yet distant from the intact original.

More than just a means of repair, kintsugi promotes a hopeful philosophy; unexpected damage can be an opportunity.

Again: Super cool.

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• antique
• DIY
• transform

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