The Japanese practice of repairing a broken object, referred to as kintsugi, is solid shiftazine
thinking.
Something that is chipped, or broken into pieces, or cracked should be, if possible, glued together. It
should be kept.
How many times have you reluctantly thrown out that beautiful cup because of a
chip, or that bowl because of a crack?
It is the flaws that give it a history, a personality, a sense of unique.
Like all things in life, nothing is perfect.
As a philosophy, kintsugi can be seen to have similarities to
the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, an embracing of the flawed or imperfect.
Japanese aesthetics values marks of wear by the use of an
object.
This can be
seen as a rationale for keeping an object around even after it has broken and
as a justification of kintsugi itself,
highlighting the cracks and repairs as simply an event in the
life of an object
rather than allowing its service to end at the time of
its damage or breakage.
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