In today’s world, people often try to hide their flaws and aim for perfection. However, the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi ...

Clay pots are long lasting ... They can be shattered and pieced back together." Or then there's Dutch artist Bouke de Vries, whose Kintsugi works create, as he puts it, "ghosts" of themselves.

Kintsugi beautifies the breakage and treats it as an important part of the object’s history, and the broken pot not as something to discard, but as something more precious than it was before.

Kintsugi—identity change and reconstruction following an episode of psychosis: a systematic review and thematic synthesis. Early Intervention in Psychiatry , 16 (7), 689-714. Princer, M. K. (2022).

In the Kol Nidrei service on the night of the Day of Atonement all the congregation recite a piyyut, poem, that begins: For behold, like clay in the hands of the potter, if he wills, he can expand ...

The expert elaborates on the philosophy behind Kintsugi: “At first glance, using gold to fix a clay pot that seems worthless might seem odd. However, in some Japanese beliefs, imperfections are ...