Imperfections are beautiful
Kintsugi is a Japanese art that repairs broken pottery with gold, rendering a new piece that is more exquisite than it was before the break. It literally means to join with gold.
The story of kintsugi—this style of pottery—may be the most perfect embodiment of all our trauma-shattered lives… Instead of throwing away the broken beloved pottery, we’ll fix it in a way that doesn’t pretend it hasn’t been broken but honors the breaking—and more so, the surviving—by highlighting those repaired seams with gold lacquer. Now the object is functional once again and dignified, not discarded. It’s stronger and even more valuable because of its reinforced, golden scars.
Imperfections are beautiful. The philosophy seeks to elevate the beauty and functionality of a broken object. A break is not a loss but a new form of existence.
Certain events in human life can leave deep scars that may have deemed impossible to repair. However overcoming them and fixing the damage with more valuable and stronger bonds is also a part of life. Rather than discarding the broken parts of an object, they’re intentionally accentuated to make them part of its history. This is a struggle against fragmentation. It downs not embrace nothingness. Instead it highlights the progress from when it was first broken
Vulnerability is neither deemed nor suppressed and no aspect of life is considered a flaw.
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