Trudi Atkin

Don’t break my art

Broken ceramics, epoxy glue, golden powder

Various sizes

SOLD

Kintsugi, literally translated as ‘golden joinery, is the centuries-old Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. It transforms the object into something new, making it more rare, beautiful, and storied than the original. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. Here, the technique has been applied to three lonely objects which had become damaged and separated from their original sets.