The Art of Kintsugi
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STILLS
Repair of crack pottery tea cup with a hand
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A handmade broken vase repaired using kintsugi.
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Small tea cup with kintsugi repair.
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A wine bottle with kintsugi repair.
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Small Green Kintsugi Pitcher
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EXTERNAL CREDITS
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金継ぎは「大切に使っていた器が割れてしまった時に修繕する手段」です。日本の技術ではありますが、日本の芸術ではありません。
その独特の金の模様が美しく感じるのはとてもよく分かりますが、器を壊すくらいなら、そういう模様をつける陶芸家になれば良いと思います。
日本の宗教観のベースにある神道を調べてみて欲しいです。
日本は物を大切に長く使う国なので、修繕技術をこのように使われているのはとても悲しいです。
hey, uhh sorry, but this video was made like 5 years ago? I think the uploader wouldn’t notice
@@healthychannel9323
そうですね、気がつかないと思います。ですが、私のコメントはあくまでこの動画を観た人に、金継ぎの技術が誤解されることを防ぐためです。
今日本では、海外から多くの方が訪れています。熱心な人は日本の文化を勉強してから来日してくださいます。そのような方に、芸術のために食器を割る国だと思われたくないのです。
また、既に沢山の方がコメントしていましたが、日本特有の宗教観や慣習や感性に触れている方は少なく思えましたので投稿した次第です。
ほとんど自己満足のようなものです、ご心配ありがとうございます。
@@greenlight7468 Hmm, but it makes me wonder, what is the best way to use the art “kintsugi”? I feel like there aren’t enough tutorials for this concept.
@@healthychannel9323
金継ぎはそもそも芸術ではなく修復術です。身近なもので言えば接着剤や糊に該当します。
確かに美術的に美しいことは間違いないですが、それはあくまで修復した結果に付随する副産的価値です。大切なものを壊してしまった時の対処法が、結果として美しかっただけのこと。
金継ぎそのものは芸術ではありません。
陶器ですから、絵付けの段階で金継ぎのような模様を施せば良いのであって、わざわざ割る必要はないのです。
長く大切に使うための技法であり、壊して美しくするための術ではないのです。
不注意でお皿を割ってしまった時には是非とも使っていただきたい技法ですが、物を壊してまで使って欲しくないというのが私の思いです。
極論で言えば“金継ぎのために物を割るな”です。
文化圏が違うのでなかなか難しい価値観なのかもしれませんね。
@@healthychannel9323
金継ぎはそもそもの用途は糊や接着剤と同じです。金で装飾を施し、漆の跡や割れ目を誤魔化しているだけにすぎません。結果的に美しく見えるというだけです。金継ぎは芸術ではないのです。糊を使うために絵画を破いたりはしないでしょう。
絵画にも陶器にも作者がいます。作者も壊される前提で作ったりしませんし、私たちも作者に敬意を持って大切に使います。だからこそ金継ぎという技法が生まれたのです。
金継ぎが美しい見た目をしているのはとてもよくわかります。ですがそれなら、金継ぎをしたような模様がある陶器を作成すれば良いだけで、壊す必要はないのです。
少々言葉使いが悪くなりますが、“金継ぎを使うために食器を割るな”ということです。大切に使うために一度壊すなんて本末転倒です。
文化圏が違うので難しい価値観かもしれませんが、どうかご理解いただきたいですね。
Bish please. You just super glued a bowl back together.
英語出来る人、誰かこの人にきちんとイチから金継ぎとは何なのか説明してあげて。
最初やり方を説明するために壊したのかと思ったけど、アート作品として作ってるのに日本人の精神性まで勝手に妄想してるっぽいし
意識高い系だから正面から正論ぶつけて否定しちゃうと面倒なことになりそうだけどさ
I like this process- fixing something (someone) that was broken. Seeing the beauty in the after. Nice video.
What about mixing a gold flake or coloring into the glue ?
@alexa altman I see the point of impact damage from the hammer strike. it makes me want to try using a chunk of 2x4 to hit it with. My thinking being that it might not create the damage crater the hammer does .
@alexa altman also thinking it would be a great gift idea for someone that went through a serious illness, accident, or a particularly bad break-up
外人にもそれは違うって言われててわろた
I really love the idea about fixing broken things with connection. To create a peaceful mind!
I wonder where I could buy the golden paints.
I am Japanese and happy someone from other race appreciate Japanese culture but this is incorrect practice of kintsugi. It is not about breaking on purpose. Just wanted to clarify ^__^
Yea I understand. But at the same time it is kinda lovely that they took something beautiful and gave it their own meaning and appreciation behind it too.
Thank you for mentioning this. I'm not Japanese (Iranian) and I wanted to explain this but you made it easy for me. The whole idea of breaking the object intentionally is against the philosophy behind kintsugi.
ほんとそう。たまたま見つけた動画で、これほど嫌な気分になったのは久しぶり。
Sezi Mik In a way, it is actually the direct opposite of said philosophy. Instead of less consumerism, it turns into mystified stylishness.
I was thinking Just the same.
The excess symbolism is so American here, and unsurprisingly, wrong in how it translates Japanese culture. The tableware is not supposed to be broken intentionally (the hammer is basically redundant), but since it adds the "dramatic factor" to the practice of her field, she wrongfully undermines the tradition of Kintsugi as a means of not just art (which is what this person believes) but also of repair in times of need, not times of selfish want. The veined beauty is a product of time, not of... hammer abuse.
わかるよ、金継ぎって綺麗だからどんどんやりたくなるよな
でもそれは壊れた陶器に対して行う行為、言わば「修理」であってわざと壊したものに対して行う行為ではないのよ…
I understand, Kintsugi is beautiful, so we want to do it again and again.
But it's something you do to broken pottery, in other words, it's a "repair". It's not something you do to something you've intentionally broken...
ひどい。
割れた物を長く大切に使う文化であり技術なのに。この人は全く逆の事をしている。
これが日本文化だと思わないで欲しい。
well this is not really Kintsugi, just call it DIY Kintsugi
🤣
I agree, not only the deliberately breaking part, the repairing is also totally different from that of Kintsugi
Kintsugi is supposed to be the way to fix the accidental damage to make it look like art, not being used for intentional breakage...
Please don't mess up the tradition.
Traditions die without being embraced in new ways.
i thought it was just for the demonstration
Without demonstrations there's no learning that can be done.
This process is inspired by Kintsugi. We can access many of the beautiful lessons that this art has to offer
It's a video. Chill. It's a demonstration.
世界中のたくさんのコメントが、これは金継ぎではないと説明してくれて嬉しい。
背景の精神まで含めて初めて金継ぎと呼ぶべきだ。
なぜ完成している器をわざわざ壊して金継ぎするのか理解に苦しむ
他の方が述べているとおり、金継ぎは「壊れてしまった」器を修復するための技術
金継は芸術から始まったわけじゃなくて災害大国の実用的な面から生まれた技術です。自分で陶器を壊して繋ぎ合わせるのは本来の「金継」の意図から外れています。
I really don't think that this represents Kintsugi accurately at all.
That it does not.
yeah because she’s a female
She literally went there and learned it 😂
Well she ain't gonna fucking sit around waiting for something to break. Twat.
@@AJediSurvivor hey there snowflake! who let you off your leash?
I am Japanese, born and raised, and I am of a generation that enjoys Japan's current culture, for better or worse.
I am happy for non-Japanese to open a Japanese restaurant, or to have bonsai or karesansui in my garden.
The wearing of kimonos by non-Japanese, which people sensitively react to as cultural theft, is also received rather favorably by the majority of Japanese people.
However, that does not mean that everything is acceptable.
Japanese people value civility and the soul.
There are traditions that are not explicitly stated, such as not throwing garbage on the street or not talking loudly in public places, and they call them manners and value them.
Kintsugi is both a technique and an art, but before that, it is a soul.
I believe that people are impressed by kintsugi in Japanese culture because they feel the soul in "beautifully repairing a broken object, leaving the scars intact, and making it into something unique.
Therefore, it is human folly to "prepare broken things" for kintsugi, even if it is for practice.
In other words, it is a clear cultural theft as far as your act is concerned.
金継ぎは補習技術が芸術に昇華したものであって、意図的に破壊するのは資材を浪費する行為であり、金継ぎの持つ意義に反している。
文化的意味や物の大切さを理解出来ていない以上、仕上がりがどれだけ美しくとも、卑しい偽物でしかない。
これは土産物屋のIconと同じだ。
I had a ceramic tea cup which I treasured greatly (because it was so pretty and I was broke college student, so that tea cup made drinking tea an experience for me as I couldnt afford many).
My roommate while putting dishes away accidentally knocked it over and it shattered into three pieces.
To say I was heart broken was an understatement. My roommate was so apologetic cause she knew I would use that cup at least 3 times a day. Sounds silly but it was just something I associated simple joy with.
Long story short I couldnt part with it. Googled ways to fix it and happened upon Kintsugi. I unfortunately couldnt find the correct materials to make it usable again but with some gold paint and resin I put it back together.
Its now a tiny green and gold planter for a tiny succulent I was given for a holiday party.
I am not Japanese so I could 100 percent wrong, but I feel like purposely breaking good pottery to practice this art form is sort of strange. The process feels 100 percent different when you have to do unexpectedly.
Again, Im not Japanese and I am no expert- perhaps Im still broke to ever justify breaking good things on purpose for art. I just feel this sort of takes away from the original idea.
*Also*
This isnt meant to hate on the lady. I think you have insight and its sort of therapeutic.
How long did the process take you?
うわ、最悪
物を大切に扱う心から生まれた技術なのに
So I actually think this is one of those moments of cultural appropriation which though not malicious is not right. So Kintsugi is about fixing something that broke and not wasting it and giving it a new life after misfortune.. She is not doing that. She is breaking something on purpose then remaking it, then I am assuming selling it for a profit higher that its original value. This totally going against the original philosophy.
Exactly. I appreciated her interpretation of this, but couldn't put my finger on exactly what was bothering me. Call it something else, and acknowledge your source, but don't give it the same name.
Actually I don’t sell these pieces, I use this art as a therapeutic intervention for people who are amidst challenge, change or trauma. You are right, that it is not authentic, but it is incredibly powerful when used as a method to heal. 🙏
@@dr.alexaaltman2024 Every craft and Hobby is Therapeutic, this is just one of many things you can do as a method to heal
dangeldoll I completely agree
Perhaps calling it Kintsugi Therapy would be better?
Ridiculous.
As Japanese, I am convinced that you will NEVER understand what kind of mind kintsugi came from.
You would go to the trouble of breaking a vessel to do this?
If you want to do FAKE "ART", that's fine, but please don't call itself Kintsugi.
This is NOT kintsugi. This is nothing more than a superficial imitation.
No one goes out of their way to self harm for reason of "they are more beautiful with scars"
It is the same with vessels.
Kintsugi is the act of sparing a vessel that is accidentally chipped or broken, and by restoring it, loving the history of its previous use, even the history of them once broken history.
Your "art" is empty.
こんなの金継ぎって言わない。
初めっから違うんだよなぁ…
This is not the Japanese culture of kintsugi. Feel free to do this for healing, but don't treat it like Kintsugi. You could call it "destruction patchwork."😅
The end result is beautiful, but it's nothing like authentic kintsugi. And I muted it halfway through so I didn't have to hear the lame, obvious, over-simplified mental health buzzword catchphrases she was using.
@alexa altman the video is literally titled "the art of kintsugi" dont bs me and tell me you wernt trying to represent the original tradition
literally what i was thinking!
Oh so this is actually more of an mindful thing and learning to be slow and still.. I love that idea! 😀
But yes, the title should be something else, because those who would gain from that mindfulness idea, won't find it, and the people who thinks this is the philosofi of kintsugi, Will be disapointed. That's sad, I think.. 'Cause I love the idea of doing this for inner calmness 😊🥰
I was done when she wants to advertise her PhD. Sorry, but if I came to your office for psycho analysis then I use Dr. But a YT vid about fixing a coffee cup??? PUHLEASEEE.
@@Changesonemack Why do u have to imply (actually, literally tell us) that u possess no education? The title Dr. is part of who u a person is. Just like u state whats ur name and where u were born u can also state ur education. One states ur birthplace and gives ppl info on ur surroundings and even possibly upbringing, the other about what u have been through during ur later years in life. U may flatter urself by thinking that she needs to feel special by mentioning it in front of u but this just about u flattering urself. Tbh im not rly on board with the things she says. They are cliche for the sake of cliche in my opinion. But u cannot come hear and disrespect her entire education. Its more than u could hope for.
Kintsugi is not like this at all. This video is cultural appropriation.
This is kinda sad? She use some cheap glue not resin lacquer, and i think that is not even a real gold. This craftsmanship is used on pieces who are very rare or special for our heart. Its kinda tacky. And there are even more amazing repair techniques.
Thank you. She learned how yo do it correctly then did this. And the piece she put back together was not well done. Where is the tonko powder to fix the holes? Why did she leave the joint crooked. Sloppy and disgraceful to the art form in my opinion. I can understand what she is saying but I don't like what she did.
yeah, or at least use ramen
Something to be said for authentic art, masters and their apprentices...
Boo hoo theyre not gonna drop 10k on a tutorial
@@poopybutt7390 she could have used the footage of her in Japan. Or bought a 200$ kit
I don't think she understands Kintsugi
I think she understand the opposite of Kintsugi
これじゃない感がすごい
Is it just me or does anyone else think that purposefully breaking something only to put it back together and then claim it's art is kinda strange? It seems to me it goes against the whole spirit of kintsugi.
なして最初から壊すん？？？
Nothing screams "pretentious" more than a white woman teaching people about ancient Japanese arts and the deeper meaning she personally assigned to them.
This.
Yes! This is the comment I was searching for, well said.
You people are so fucking sensitive. Everyone's allowed to have their own viewpoint on things. If you disagree with hers, that's fine but nothing screams "pretentious" more than you bringing up someone's race and gender and believing that is the determining value in someone's belief system.
Nothing screams "pretentious" like people who have to bring race and gender into everything.
@@bloodmoonyt1901 if an Asian person tried to do a video about Jesus and being a republican according to him, you'd loose you minds. No go back to something you're qualified to whine about like tucker Carlson and leave the rest of us to keep thriving
なんも分かってなくて草
何も理解していないなら何もやらないで。それだけです。
All wrong start with the title. What she's doing is NOT ART, and not even kintsugi craftsmanship. The result is awful IMO.
Who's here after listening to Lana Del Rey?
me! what a beatiful song. It brought me to tears
When cultural appropriation manifests as a derivative-esque analogy. Dr., you make psychology and western culture look bad.
" When you're holding a hammer, everything around you looks like a nail."
Basically it's Kintsugi Art not "art of kintsugi"
The moment I saw her breaking the bowl on purpose I stopped watching. Goodful, do some research before making a video, let true craftsman show how it is done.
@alexa altman I am looking to go to Japan an learn, could you please tell me where and with whom you did learn in Japan. Thank you, have a nice day.
I’m a social worker and I think this would be a really good way of therapy and have a physical representation of healing. Whether or not it is directly authentic, its a great analogy. And sometimes therapy is purposely breaking your secret open so that you can heal so even the breaking of it yourself is a choice instead of dealing with what other people have broken.
well it would be harder to wait around for a bowl or vase to break in order to do this. I think this video is less about the authenticity and more about the technique itself
I think even if don’t use the correct method, at least make the repair look good. Using cheap clumpy glue and paint made me cringe.
The result is so tacky and rough around the edges. It's a shame to see this millenary art being used for "advertising" purposes.
Really badly done.
embarrassing.
lol so pretentious
I’m Japanese. I don’t wanna be offensive,
But this is not correct.
I think many people will get my feelings.
The main reason we repair using kintsugi technique is like this . You have so much memories and love for the cup and used carefully but accidentally you broke it or worn out. Can you just throw it away?
Maybe it’s a gift from your grandma who died. You can’t throw it away as garbage.
Then, you use kintsugi techniques and use it. So kintsugi cup is never better than a nonbreaked cup. So breaking it on purpose is almost opposite .
Is it difficult for foreign people?
I think all humans has one of those culture
So I was surprised to see this.
For example you have a 50year old retro bike given from your grandpa.You fixed and fixed a lot. Buying a a new car will be easy and money saving but you love that old car. Something like that
The end result was neither beutiful or useful. Not the way you wanna end up in life. Plus, she ruined a really nice bowl...
I don’t think the point was for it to be beautiful or useful. I do think it was partially incorrect in the way that she broke the bowl on purpose, but I think the point of this is about self love, acceptance, and being able to be happy with who you are. Cause in the video she was making a lot of statements about not hiding the cracks or covering the cracks up in the bowl. Instead she did the opposite and highlighted the cracks to make them stand out. Also i actually think it turned out beautifully in the end
00:23 "alexa altman, phd" Good Lord, wtf does Phd have to do with Kintsugi? Or is it that you wanna rub your degree all over people's face?
If you watched the video, then you'll know it has to do more with wholesomeness and observing our histories than it does about pottery.
Get a load of this loser without a phd.
DO NOT breat intentionally - this is NOT Kintsugi
Japan : This is our traditional art with showing philosophy of our accepting damage of object and while repair damage showing respecting history of being...
This Artist : HAMMER
Well that was disappointing.
金継ぎの何たるかがなんにも分かってない人がやるとこうなるんだなって…。😢
本当に悲しくなるわ。
If I want to apply this kind of kintsugi to my own life, should I start by smoking meth and then pursue a PhD?
Yes, that would work
This is more like kintsugi "wanna-be"
“Do not fix it right away”
*takes out glue*
Ya know, if you want it only for the aesthetic, you can just paint gold lines on your bowl.
This is terrible representation of a cultural concept and element.
As same as everyone here says, the porpose of Kintsugi is not breaking something.Please include a note of correction in the video.
It's like a painting restorer damaging works of art to show off his skills.
Kintsugi isn't supposed to be done on ceramics you are breaking purposely.
How to ridicule a wonderful process!
We all get hammered 😏
Or nailed ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
People who call them selfs Dr. or something of their formation ( sometimes not even that) as if it was their names!!!
It's called being a pretentious tw@ and having to inflate their own feelings of self-worth. It's just sad and pathetic, isn't it?
You DO NOT purposely break vessels for this historical restoration and artisanal purpose!
You have to fill the cracks , let it dry to do it again and again , I have a whole box of kintsugi ‘tools ‘, it takes a month to complete . She only got a hammer , cheap glue , a brush and gold paint !
good for you.
@@kristianpoulsen9689 surely
Now I got an excuse for destroying all my mom's dishes.
LOL!
haha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Healing is about connection, not perfection" As someone whose struggled with mental health my whole life, this quote was really cool.
this really really misses the point. It’s so westernised it hurts.
It really is, with the "lemme break this bowl with a goddamn hammer" and the whole "KINTSUGI" written on the table and all that. talk about white washing and monetizing a culture, jeez. Sooo pretentious
You don't hammer ceramics. If you apply that explanation (which is practically similar to the value of kitsugi in Japanese)
THEN THAT MEAN HUMAN RIGHT ABUSE IS BEAUTIFUL FOR YOU!!!
This is Japanese way of giving new life to a something that you value but deteriorated due to old age!!!
What a ham-fisted way of bastardising the meaning of an ancient craft. Not only did you miss the point of kintsugi, but you literally aren't even doing kintsugi.
How does a clinical psychologist totally misread the simple practice of kintsugi to mean "bringing these different aspects of a fragmented part of ourselves together"; like girl, did you get your PhD from tumblr?
When you join peices of a broken ceramic object with gold, you accentuating the fault line that tore it apart. This articulates the message that your faults and scars are part of your story and what makes you one of a kind.
The bit that killed me what not only that you seem to omit the detail that peices aren't meant to be deliberately broken; but that you insisted that a cloth, hammer e600 and nail file had any meaningful signifance in this abhorent sequence.
壊すシーンはなかなかショックだな。
金継ぎって、壊れてしまったものも長く使えるようにするための技術なのに、わざと壊したら長く使う気ないやんって話にならん？前提から違うやん。。
金継ぎ体験って日本でもあるけど、その場で器や皿を壊します！て書いてるところ見たことないし。
何年も前の動画でいまさらだけど、残念な気持ちになったな。
you're not supposed to break it on purpose in some kind of spiritual way, but shrugging that off, I can understand breaking it just because you want to make a kintsugi piece, but gluing it together and painting it with metallic paint is totally different from the actual way of doing it, which is attaching the bits together with laquer and powdering gold on it, which also looks a thousand times better and makes the piece useable, without holes in it
You broke a perfectly good bowl
This is terrible, horrible and a waste of the art.
I stopped after you purposely broke the bowl. I do not want to come off as rude but you’re presenting a cultural art wrong. It makes me uncomfortable when people take things from other cultures and misrepresent them. It feels like you didn’t pay attention in “your research” when you “learned” kintsugi. Maybe you could change your title to “inspired by Kintsugi”
this is really lame, this is kintsugi blasphemy
For people looking for authentic Kintsugi videos there is literally a YT channel called Kintsugi. Amazing process.
金継ぎは愛しんだ物が壊れてしまったのを惜しんでなおす行為なのに最初に破壊するなんて
物への愛の無さが伺えてとても悲しい
I always thought you are not supposed to break something intentionally? 😅
this is just an application of the practice to a therapeutic cause. in that light, intentional breaking makes sense. nobody wants you to break your own pottery on purpose. i liked the video for that purpose.
Except if it's not a part of the tradition, she is presenting it as part of the process. If it's not, it's not.
That's actually appropriation.
@@tdez6060 cultures are not owned, they exists, coexist, overlap, get shared, can and should enrich peoples lives. It flows in many ways.
Shame goodful this is not kintsugi at all
金継ぎは、壊れた器の手当て。
これは最初に器を殺すようなもの。
せめて「金継ぎ」という言葉を使わないでほしい。
cultural misappropriation is different than honouring cultural heritage by expressing the inspiration than has come to us from various cultures. As an multimedia artist I want to try this practice coming from my own heritage but not to buy into possessiveness but to be at both ends of sharing. What my results are part of the ever-changing nature of culture. The philosophy of Wabi Sabi is about impermanence, imperfection, and ever unfinished.
Deerheart Adornments so beautifully stated.
This video was really cringe. She broke a perfectly good bowl, which ruins the entire metaphorical meaning of it. She then tries to connect it to “telling stories” way too much.
As someone who works at a school with trauma ( south side of Chicago ) I am looking forward to showing this video to my students so that we can repair some of our ceramics that blew up or cracked in the kiln
No, I'm not thrilled by this intentional breaking of something to repair it to "look pretty". I think on the surface, this is what it appears Dr. Altman is doing. So from an art teacher perspective, I don't like this too much
However, then from a mental health perspective, I really like this video. My students spent two weeks working with clay, struggling with it, finally making something they liked... and it comes out of the kiln broken. I wouldn't be surprised if a few physically throw their work away in the garbage
BUT I'm hoping that this video will make them slow down... the blowing up & cracking wasn't something they could control, and it sucks ( pardon me ) that it happened, BUT that doesn't mean their artwork is now 100% useless
It's going to be hard to encourage my students to not give up on themselves or their artwork when they see just how many blew up & cracked after firing... however, just as Dr. Altman was saying about mindfulness and sitting with our broken parts and wanting to repair ourselves, this *awful* clay unit in art class might be a really good chance for a life lesson on how to recover when something goes wrong (like trauma)
Please share something more authentic to your students so you are not passing on misinformation.
As an ex art student, I wish you were one of my teachers. Secondly, I feel the same.. I have cracks and have fallen so many times and broken. Still I wish to be beautiful in a way that I see in myself.
Please help out som of your students with some of their baggage. They need people like u.
I can understand making the most of a broken vase or other decorative object by embellishing it but I cannot understand breaking an object even if for a video demonstration. I've just glued back together a beautiful new terracotta Italian-style vase badly broken in transit from the seller and will cover it with filler/spackling and then chalk paint.
I'm learning about kintsugi to teach a high school class about it but create a project with a concept of "it broke, fix it" and they will mend a slab cylinder with an open wall closed with yarn. It's obviously very general and using the concept of kintsugi in a very very loose way. but i look forward to teaching them the philosophy surrounding kintsugi, its valuable to me and i believe my students could benefit from it
I ended up on this video but i knew right away that what she was saying was not accurate to the real japanese traditions. honestly right when i heard her voice i knew this video wouldn't be accurate.
The only thing getting hammered, other than her bowl, is her actually thinking that this is Kintsugi.
The face of cultural appropriation.
なんか幻滅。ウルシ使わないし。侘び寂びも理解してないだろう。真似事レベル。しっかり修行しなさい。
step 1: break it
step 2: look at the pieces
step 3: glue is about glue
step 4: dont forget to breath while waiting
step 5: holes are places where stuff isnt
step 6: gold is fancy looking
step 7: eat cereal
It's one thing to ignore the point of this practice by purposefully breaking a ceramic, but you didn't replace the missing parts or seal it either. You just painted gold paint on the cracks. So... this isn't even properly done, either.
私は金継ぎは門外漢ですが、わざと破壊するのは、金継ぎ本来の精神に反するのではないかな。
わざと壊すってところが、やっぱりわかっとらんなと
this is super glue it and paint the crack gold...
This is fetishization of a process and an esthetic, fawning over eastern mysticism, layering over superficial symbolism - like infusing hammer and cloth with meaning - while missing the goal entirely.
Gold is not the goal. Goal is for the bowl to be whole.
Gold is just a reminder that the crack is what allowed the bowl to become more valuable.
Not perfect, nor was it before - but changed, perhaps for the better. Not complete, nor was it - as it is more than before, despite missing pieces. And clearly it is not permanent but changed and changing still.
As is with all things.
If you like the esthetic, fine. Knock yourself out. Only find a bowl that's already cracked, don't waste money on a bowl just to break it.
But doing embroidery over a tear in a piece of clothing or gluing back, sanding and repainting an old chair or table is the exact same thing.
Turning hole into whole.
You should call this "The Art of Crap-sugi." This video is offensive. Kind of like when a TH-cam "chef" makes a video about the "Perfect Cuban Sandwich" and puts pulled pork in it. (ugh) Seriously stop disrespecting other cultures with your incessant need to whitesplain foreign things you have no idea off.
Break on purpose? Glue? C’est du grand n’importe quoi!!!!! Get real, you did not get anything about kintsugi. It’s not just like « ouh I went to Japan, I attended a course blabla I know and I understand all about it!! » 🙄 Franchement vous êtes trop がいじん pour ça !!!
The words were nice, but the technique of kintsugi wasn’t used here. It’s a much more involved & flawless transformation.
This not art, this is fake. All the process is corrupt. Breaking on purpose, use unsafe chemical products ?... Don't touch the Intangible tradition, poetry, beauty and philsophy please. I feel like you are in the wrong way. This break my heart. This is waste. It makes no sens.