History of a Woman

adashofsunny Sanaa Rizva On Popular Demand – Imperfection is Beautiful

Kintsugi Art Gift Gallery | Gold Effect Pottery Repair
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This all-consuming Sisyphean quest for dewy perfection, when did it start? Maybe it has always been but now we have more means of meeting the ends: plastic surgery, botox, fitness centers, cosmetics. You’d think women would rebel against the enforced concept of aging has no value. We learn it from antique dealers, I guess, condition is everything. We try as hard as we can to ward off or hide grey hair, wrinkles, sagging, lost elasticity – this growing older. Well go ahead, use what’s at hand to look youthful for as long as you can, but do not believe the lie that old is synonymous with worthless.

Eternal youth
aspiration of vanity
true beauty is internal.

 

Pared down to its barest essence WABI-SABI is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature, of accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay, and death. It’s simple, slow, and uncluttered-and it reveres authenticity above all.

Kintsugior (Japanese: golden repair) Defined as “to repair with gold”,^[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. As a philosophy it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. Wikipedia