14 July 2015
"Preserving What is Valued" is the exhibition that display in Pitt Rivers Museum. This exhibition show the way an ancient people fixed the broken craftsmanship such as ceramics, gourd bowl, and canoe prow ornament. In broken ceramics, the owner used lacquer and gold to repair these works which is Kintsugi method. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing the broken pottery by using lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver or platinum between the fracture.
This plate decorated by using the flower form in the middle of the plate and using brown colour and some blue and green colour to paint on the flower. There are the crack around the edge of the plate and large noticeable crack on the right side, which the owner used the lacquer and gold to fix the broken plate. I chose this piece because it definitely relate with my work which is ceramic, I often broke my ceramic work whether it be in processing or moving. Thus, this method is extremely useful to repair my work and I'll not using a glue anymore!!
I'm interested in your review!
ReplyDeleteI saw the work using Kintsugi. Artist said that Kintsugi is used to repair, but he use this technique to make pattern on dishes. I'm looking forward to see your presentation :-)
Really interesting Ink and nice feedback Midori! More information of each picture and reference? :)
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