About

Homespun Kintsugi is a page wherein I will explore both the art of kintsugi and the philosophy of wabisabi.

Wabisabi is the idea that there is strength and beauty to be found in imperfection, which I think is an incredibly valuable idea that I have benefited from and I think a lot of others can benefit from it as well. I hope that you enjoy exploring it with me.

Kintsugi is a Japanese art form that I think exemplifies the idea of wabisabi. It involves taking broken pottery and basically gluing it back together with poisonous gold. Urushi lacquer is mildly poisonous before it cures, and gold dust is sprinkled on it after it cures. (Wildly simplified explanation) This allows the pottery to continue to be used with enhanced beauty that was only made possible by it having been broken in the first place.

A few years ago, I realized that I had been wrong about quite a few things that I thought were really important. I adopted the artist’s name of Wabisabi Shugyosha and began exploring the idea of wabisabi and the art of kintsugi. Being wrong was an unpleasant feeling, but it has given me new chances to discover strength and beauty in life in ways that I would not have ever noticed without the experience of deciding that my old ideas were wrong and broken.

Homespun Kintsugi is the combination the art of kintsugi with a Southern aesthetic.