Kintsukuroi

KINTSUKUROI

The end of the 15th century saw the birth of Kintsukuroi art of repairing broken ceramics using a lacquer with powdered gold that highlights the seams.

In time, this technique acquired so much prestige that people were accused of breaking their objects on purpose.

When I read about Kintsukuroi I thought of you I saw you on skates falling on your back and breaking your coccyx.

I thought of your phobias and of the dental protheses your mother orders for her clients.

I thought of the moss and spider webs that form in the vicinity of nuclear reactors like fragile and elastic curved theorems with the stubborn beauty of your burnt little ears.

—Translation: Lee Gould