Kintsugi People – the art of healing

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.

I began 2020 with one word in my head – healing. These two pieces are very representative to me of the importance of how we heal our broken wounds of the past. If we highlight each of our broken pieces as we glue them back together with the pride of gold for everyone to see, this is to me the true path of healing.

The first piece, “The Healed Vulva” was so powerful that it lead me to create “IronMan 2020”