kintsugi (gold joinery) technique.

The Gold Between Us

A broken bowl is easy to discard. A kintsugi bowl asks a different question. What if the break is not the end of the story? In the Japanese art of kintsugi, shattered ceramics are repaired with lacquer mixed with powdered gold. The cracks are not concealed. They become part of the object’s history. Democracies break, too. Trust…