fuckatherine

 If you asked me what my ceramic pet peeve is I would answer you resolutely and immediately...

KINTSUGI
 

I guess that's not entirely fair because I'm not really talking about the original Japanese tradition. Rather I'm talking about its modern conceptualization into a mend-all-be-all in any type of whoopsie in Western art or non-art. 

Broke your girlfriend's coffee mug? Yes! Yes! Your shitty epoxy (unchecked for food safety, blemished by toilet paper fibers from when you squeezed too much and tried to wipe it off) painted gold (craft paint from middle school somehow still in the basement) will most definitely save you from her wrath and the cup from the trash. 

Need a contrived metaphor for healing from brokenness but rising from the pieces as opposed to becoming whole? Not the phoenix or even sock darning... yes. What this art piece needs is KINTSUGI it needs WABI-SABI it needs to be suffused with how CALM and ACCEPTING OF FATE and WISE the JAPANESE are. 


I don't think kintsugi is an inherently negative concept. I do think that some of you are lazy.


And I also think that kintsugi is an inherently cultural practice and while it's not necessarily kept from outsiders it needs to be acknowledged as such. You made this decision. Now quick! Tell me why. Can you really not cope with whatever has occurred to your object in any other way?

Boooooo.

Side note anyone who breaks an object to make it "better" with kintsugi is stupid and now your object is ugly. 


I mean, do what you want. I will just never respect you the amount I did before.