The Beauty of Broken Objects¶
Institution, S. (2020). The Beauty of Broken Objects.
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Mechanisms¶
- Repair or Reconsecration Ceremony
- The distinguishing choice is whether to honour or hide the damage — the strongest reconsecrations make the repair visible, so the object's survival is legible, in the spirit of kintsugi, the craft of mending breakage with gold so the fracture is highlighted rather than concealed.
This sourceDescribes gold-decorated repair as a choice to display rather than conceal damage, making an object’s continuing life visible.
- The distinguishing choice is whether to honour or hide the damage — the strongest reconsecrations make the repair visible, so the object's survival is legible, in the spirit of kintsugi, the craft of mending breakage with gold so the fracture is highlighted rather than concealed.
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