The Art of Kintsugi: Art of Beautiful Repair

Kintsugi, is the Japanese refine of repairing broken pottery with powdered gold. It is built on the concept that in embracing beauty flaws and imperfections, you can produce an even more vital and nicer piece of art. Kintsugi also is known as “golden repair”. It often makes the fixed piece even more beautiful than the original, revitalizing it with a new look and giving it a second life.

The craft rests on the philosophy of “wabi-sabi” (In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi is a world view centered on the beauty of imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete, which entireties up as the conviction in “accepting the impermanence of our life and our environment.”

In our living, everyone wishes to find perfection in lives. We will dream of an ideally harmonious relationship, good work, a happy family, wealth, and perfect life. However, life is unpredictable and tends to have a habit of dealing us with a range of surprises and leaving nothing much of this array of fine dreams save some shattered and worthless fragments. It’s the time that we might turn our minds to a concept drawn from kintsugi, the art of beautiful repair.

Looking forward to 2021

And, in the year 2020, a surprise Covid-19 pandemic has caused the loss of life and made a significant impact on the whole world. Countries around the world continued to close borders, lockdown, impose strict entry and exit rules and control, and implementation of various SOP in efforts to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.

Country, business community and individual, unavoidably suffered from this pandemic. Despite the challenging environment and pandemic effect, ICA has strongly believed in a brighter future, and we are bringing the “kintsugi” concept to remind all about life imperfection but yet with courage and determination, this will enable us to get through this rough period. And, the recovery from the pandemic will make us even stronger and more united. Therefore, we use this quote to remembrance us the impact of the pandemic:-

“ The world breaks everyone,

and afterward,

many are strong at the broken places.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms