![]() ![]() What is your attitude to broken and old things?.I keep an ugly, bashed table in my front room because it has so many memories and has been sat on by my childhood friends, my friends, my kids. An old therapist friend used to keep her flowers in a vase even after they were dead and shedding petals because, she said, that there was beauty in the decay and dying. (Wikipedia).įlaws and imperfections are highlighted as evidence of wear and tear and are part of the idea that nothing is permanent and everything changes. ‘Kintsugi (which means ‘golden joinery’) is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver or platimum’ ‘As a philosophy it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise’. ![]() The seat reminds me of the Japanese art of Kintsugi. ![]() In a world where beauty is a certain look – botoxed foreheads, trout pout lips, size 4 clothes…it is just worth reminding ourselves of the beauty in imperfection. Isn’t that just just beautiful? I know you couldn’t sit on that chair but the way it was just sitting amongst the poppies and next to the whitewashed wall and boat just seemed perfect…I couldn’t have arranged it any better. ![]()
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