writing rengeek magpie mind

December 2014



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I hear you, brave sir.

I shall just share something that made me blink and tear up a little when I saw it:

Kintsugi is the art of repairing damaged or smashed pottery with lacquer and gold, rendering it as useful as before, and more beautiful.

That . . . is all kinds of awesome.

In the film "The Road Home" (1999), people in China used to repair their bowls when they get broken or damaged, rather than just throwing them away and getting new ones like we do nowadays.

There would be a community peddler/bowl-mender who makes the round repairing household items. They use a more crude and less aesthetically pleasing method than Kintsugi (which is an developed art form), but the purpose is to repair the bowl so that those who treasure it can use it again. It was a era when people still treated their belongings with respect and things were made meant to last. In the film, it was mentioned to be a dying trade due to introduction of consumerism and increasing affluence in China.
Thank you for telling me that.

I took a screenshot of the bowl in the film.
A most useful and joyous concept in that image.