Kintsugi

Kintsugi - a Precious Fix for Anything

Kintsugi 金継ぎ

(Japanese: golden joinery) or

Kintsukuroi 金繕い

(Japanese: golden repair)
- art of fixing broken pottery with a lacquer resin sprinkled with powdered gold.

This principle of making stuff even more beautiful by repairing can be applied for many things, including illusionary entities, like a "broken heart", for example. I certainly applied it in the past to clothing and some things, and even to my own stamina, but never defined it clearly before. And the seam seems to be stronger than the surrounding material.

Principle:

1. Turn something broken into amazing by fixing it with dazzling stuff.

My (Improvisatory) Rules :

1. Make sure the broken thing is worth your time and resources;
2. Identify all cracks;
3. Find or create a matching filling of superior quality;
4. Merge them together elegantly into one that is better than both of them;
5. Use a glue that is stronger than the materials;
6. Let the "wounded" parts show the splendor of unique lines;
7. Don't polish the resulting creation extensively, let it be what it is.