Golden Repair/Kintsukuroi
2018 mylar
Golden Repair/Kintsukuroi
2018 mylar
Installation in Svalbard. Collaboration with Shohei Katayama. Based on the Japanese ceramic tradition kintsukuroi of repairing broken pots with gold inlay, and the concept of Mono no aware, translated as an empathy toward things, or a sensitivity to ephemera.
Created with support of the thearcticcircle.org residency, the Oregon Arts Commission and the Ford Family Foundation.