The clever folks at the School of Life post many charming videos about philosophy, but today they posted an article in support of a philosophical aesthetic. "Kintsugi" is an approach to beautifully mending broken things, and is compatible with Zen Buddhism, as well as some ancient Japanese traditional approaches to appreciating and respecting physical things. (A culture that has a temple ceremony dedicated to thanking broken sewing needles possesses these kinds of ideas.)
This post reminds me that my favorite modern artist employing this approach to create rather than 10 then is the Korean ceramic artist YEEsookyung. I may need to post about her also.
#zen #repair #aging #wabisabi
http://www.thebookoflife.org/kintsugi/
