The distinctly orcish dinnerware assemblages of artist Glen Taylor – as if brutishly repaired in the aftermath of some unspeakable party.
Like kintsugi, only more frightening.
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The brutalist kintsugi of artist Glen Taylor – broken porcelain ‘repaired’ with tarnished silverware, barbed wire, chains and paper mâché, contrasting the delicacy of the original piece with unwieldy mends in a celebration of imperfection.
Which is more worthy of celebration than perfection.
Discuss.
Sidewalk Kintsukuroi by artist Rachel Sussman wherein the Japanese art of kintsugi (repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold) is applied to cracks in the street.
Related: Gilt Edged
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Translated Vase: shards of ceramic ‘sewn’ together with 24K gold by Korean artist Yee Sookyung – a process similar to the centuries old Japanese art of kintsugi.
A short film made at a Kintsugi workshop organisd by Tokyobike in London.
Kintsugi or kintsukuroi is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with a gold dusted lacquer that – like all good restoration projects – celebrates the old, the new and the repair itself.
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