KINTSUGI
I'm a kintsukuroi
type of guy
a wabi-sabi
mellow fellow
a mushin state
of mind.
I celebrate the brokenness
love the absences
embrace the missing
pieces
turning loss
into gold
the cracks in this
broken object of a heart
merely part
of the craic
life as she is
lived.
The broken bowl
of the soul
more beautiful
because of its brokenness.
as I said I'm a kintsukuroi
type of guy.
Kintsugi ( "golden joinery"), also known as kinsukuroi ("golden repair"),
Not only is there no attempt to hide the damage, but the repair is literally illuminated... a kind of physical expression of the spirit of mushin....Mushin is often literally translated as "no mind," but carries connotations of fully existing within the moment, of non-attachment, of equanimity amid changing conditions. ...The vicissitudes of existence over time, to which all humans are susceptible, could not be clearer than in the breaks, the knocks, and the shattering to which ceramic ware too is subject. This poignancy or aesthetic of existence has been known in Japan as mono no aware, a compassionate sensitivity, or perhaps identification with, [things] outside oneself.
— Christy Bartlett, Flickwerk: The Aesthetics of Mended Japanese Ceramics