What can we learn from Japanese art Kintsugi????

Good morning, everyone!!!

Today I will write about this Japanese art called Kintsugi and how it can help us in our life if we understand its beautiful metaphor.

souce: http://danielpassini.org/kintsugi-jesus/

When you fix a broken ceramic, you can give a new life form to the ceramic that becomes even more refined thanks to your scars. The Japanese art of Kintsugi teaches that broken objects are not something to hide, but to show with pride.

When a bowl, a ceramic teapot or a precious vase falls and breaks into a thousand pieces, we westerners usually throw them away with a certain sadness. Entreating There is an alternative that the Japanese practice that enhances the breaks by adding value to the broken object. It is called Kintsugi (金継ぎ), or Kintsukuroi (金繕い), literally golden ("Kin") and repair ( "Tsugi"). That is, these objects, especially those of porcelain, are recalled using a form of gold metal.

This traditional Japanese art uses a precious metal-liquid gold, liquid silver or lacquer sprinkled with gold powder-to gather the pieces of a broken ceramic item. The technique is to add fragments and give them a new, more refined aspect. Each piece is unique, because of the impresivibilidade of how the ceramics shatters when falling, in addition to the irregular formed patterns that are made with the use of the precious metals used.

That is, using this technique it is possible to create true and exclusive works of art, each with its own history and beauty, thanks to the unique cracks formed when the object breaks, as if they were wounds that leave different marks on each one of us.

What can we learn from this Kintsugi technique???

This kintsugi art suggests many things. We shouldn't throw away broken objects. When an object of ours breaks down, it doesn't mean it's no longer useful. Your ruptures can become valuable. We should try to fix things because by doing that, we can get more valuable objects. This is the essence of resilience. Each of us should look for a way to deal with traumatic events in a positive way, learn from negative experiences, get the best out of them and understand that these experiences make each person unique, precious.

Each of us has cracks in our lives. There are several passages in our path that caused pain. The question itself is how we deal with them. We can throw the broken objects away, that is, we do not work the pain that bothers us or, we go through this pain, trying to understand its origin and how to deal with it, creating our own restoration, just as the Japanese do with their ceramics.

Look at this beautiful video showing how this technique is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=NClE093Q--U

Have you noticed how long it takes to do this restoration? It is so with us, it is a painful, time consuming process, but the end result tends to make us stronger!!!!
I thank you all and I hope you enjoyed it.

Good afternoon!!!!!