Transformations
Kintsugi, or Quintsukuroi, is the Japanese technique of repairing fracture of ceramic objects. According to Wikipedia, they do it with slices and silver or gold powder. The philosophical point of departure of the technique is that fractures and repairs are part of the history of objects and must be shown to show the transformation of them. The objects so treated are worth more than the new ones.
In our environment, in the past, when the backs of the glazed pots were drilled with use, they were repaired with old rags, entering the hole and covering very tightly torsioned. The reason was profoundly pragmatic: to extend the lives of the casseroles as much as possible (or until the Gypsies who reached the people every so often provided them with better reparations). Subsistence economy.
Many people will find it weird, but at one time most things (like the umbrellas) were fixed, instead of throwing them in the trash, and they were filled with objects restored by the house, without reaching the example of the tape glasses.
They used to fix most things, like rain, instead of throwing them away, and they were filled with objects restored by the house.
An article by architect Jonander Agirre Mikelez (To be built, 7K, 1270, 28/05/2023) reminds me of both the Kintsugi technique and the interim repairs of the old pots. In his article, in Switzerland, Basel, the author refers to the project of transforming a wine warehouse into a housing block, by replacing an expired use with a necessary one.
Human beings are capable of creating and destroying things around us, of twisting reality, to infinity or even total destruction. It's probably one of the keys to our evolution as a species. Humanity has demonstrated enormous capacity to create and underpin new things (objects, organizations, plans, strategies…), both for good and for evil. I remember a little piece he saw at the beginning of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in the gigantic exhibition on China, which looked like a more beautiful artwork, but was part of a war machine.
In most cases, we use creativity to make new inventions, skipping old or faulty things.
More times we should strive to look at reality (and ourselves) with other eyes and to use creativity to solve the broken things we have both abroad and inside, without being creating and creating new things. As in other times, cloth in the back of the pot.
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