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Our Kintsugi Bundle: Kintsugi 金継ぎ is the Japanese art of putting broken things back together. It literally means “putting together in gold.“ Kintsugi is an intricate repair technique in which ceramic pieces are put back together to form a new whole - the “scars“ are then covered with real gold. Behind this is the idea that all things are unique - and breakage is not the end. If this is done artfully with much love and attention, a much stronger, new work of art can be created from the broken and imperfect. In this proces we can see the masterful skill, dedication, accuracy and patience in the following documentary by Motoki Tonn about a Kintsugi master from Tokyo. Final piece and more photos: How can we deal with fragments of life? For the love of Kintsugi: @motoki/for
