KINTSUGI – better

KINTSUGI, the hidden meaning in a tattoo 

 

in this short article of the section “PSICO DESIGN – the psychology of the drawings” we address the meaning and symbolism of the KINTSUGI from a mythical or primordial point of view, to apply it in the portrayal of the tattoo

 

Anyway, we speak of fairytales that make us dream, there’s no time for science here

 

The prefrontal cortex has no ground here, we move within the emotions of the limbic brain or the instinct of the reptilian brain 

 

KINTSUGI

 

this strange name… 

it took me a while to remind me that and at first I didn’t know what the hell it was, in words,

 

but in images, yes,I did!

 

Japan has a phenomenal pottery culture,

they love it, they adore it, ceramics are the heart of many historical rituals, such as the tea one for example,

but you know… sometimes things fall and ceramics break

 

into a thousand pieces

some big and millions small ones

 

Japanese people, then, take the big ones and let the rest go,

they line them up and pour gold in the middle in order to weld pieces together

 

a trauma destroys everything

 

unnecessary dust is blown away

flows of gold close the scars

and pottery now is even more beautiful than before

 

damn prettier than before

 

and more precious, much more precious

and unique, inimitable

 

you can try to break a thousand of the same bowls, but they will never break in the same way

 

here, the fall that shattered the ceramics, is also that one that created

the space for the gold casting

 

the space was not there before

it was a ceramic like any others, anonymous, replicable, normal

 

now it is wonderful, unique, precious

 

thanks to that fall and the chance to see the collateral beauty hidden inside the traumatic event

 

there is always that chance

there is always resilience somewhere

there is always the Kintsugi

 

with love, but always irreverent
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