Yes, creating new problems is a rich method of learning about art. Likewise, though, it is beneficial to study, mend, and learn from the already-broken. Rather than creating new problems, which has its perks, we find what’s broken, what once worked, and give it the necessary aid.
Performing the Japanese tradition of kintsugi, which means “to patch with gold,” is to live beyond the life of simple repair, easy fixing, and auto-correct. To understand art, to follow the kintsugi rule, one must make something better than its original form.
Becoming a creator of art doesn’t mean you have to create something no one has imagined before, it doesn’t mean you have to start from nothing or from scratch; it merely takes determination to find room for improvement in something that is broken and to fill the cracks with imagination.
Artists don’t use band aids, duck tape or caulk, they patch with gold, with heart, with newness.
Stay Positive & Kintsugi: Make Something “Better Than New”
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