To repair, with gold.

Kinstugi \ Kinstukuroi.

noun~

To prepare with gold; The art of repairing metal with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.

From the depths of ancient Japanese history we found one of the most influential movements of art. The eastern culture has always makes a key reference point in several fields of art from poetry, to philosophy and evidently, in repairing fractured fine china.

Given the immense both emotional and product value of fine china especially back in late 15th century Japan, when a piece would meet a gloom fate, either fractured or broken it would almost feel like blasphemy to throw a piece of such invaluable art away. Thus the technique of Kinstugi or Kinstukuroi was born, in the back room of a small workshop in ancient Japan.

Primarily set to face the practical aspect of a broken piece of poterry, and proven affective, this technique carries a much deeper meaning behind it. Pouring molten gold at times or just gold pigments mixed with some sort of binding medium to keep the pieces together, Kinstugi, unlike other repair techniques, accentuated and highlighted the cracks instead of trying to conceal them; embracing the brokenness as a part of the artefacts history and understanding that it is actually more beautiful having been broken.

So heres another valuable lesson of Eastern wisdom; embrace your brokenness and celebrate your scars.

Remember, you bleed gold.