What's a Kintsugi? Is it that dragon cap? Wasn't it called something else before?
"is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique."
Yes, and there are philosophical and important aesthetic ideas behind it. Imperfection is perfection. Irregularity is balance. Something that is broken is more complete than something new.
I have a friend who throws pottery in the Japanese folk style with shino and salt glazes. I have some guinomi and yunomi from him:
The blue one in the middle is my favorite. So of course my kitty Clara decided to perorm a gravity experiment with it. I was so upset, scooped the pieces up and threw them away and tried to be zen about possessions not being yours forever. I didn't see my wonderful wife take them out of the trash. She sent them to a kintsugi master in Japan. For my birthday I got:
I'm not really an artisan keycap person. They are neat, but I neither have time or interest in the chase, which is part of the game. But I might have to try for one here. This could be really cool.
