Kintsugi

The most precious things can fall and break, but they can be fixed. Just like people. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of restoring broken ceramics by joining the pieces together with a mixture of resin and precious metals. This creates a new, unique and unrepeatable object, whose cracks tell a story: a bird flies away, a cup breaks, and a discovery and transformation occurs. What seemed irreparable ultimately brings beauty back to the world. The philosophy of this ancient technique – to glue a crack, to heal a wound, to ennoble a scar – inspires a new book by the author of “Migrants”. Kintsugi is a silent poem that tells us about loss and falling, about healing through an initiatory path, about the possibility of overcoming adversity and trauma. Acceptance of fragility itself.