Monday, 8 January 2024

GCSE Art - Power - Kintsugi - broken things remade with gold - Billie Bond

 


Naoko Fukumaru, Bowels of The Earth — Water, 2020

Kintsugi is a Japanese concept to do with rebuilding and overcoming difficulties. For over 500 years Japanese Potters have been fixing shattered, cracked or broken Pottery using a mixture of tree sap ( as a glue) and powdered gold. This way the repair and the original breaks are not hidden they are celebrated.




Billie Bond







Sculptures fragments are joined together using a gold coloured resin, applying the Kintsugi philosophy to sculpture