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White. Everything was white, until it wasn't. Standing in Seoul's sprawling Arsham retrospective, I watched as shapes emerged from the monochromatic haze like ghosts materializing from a fog. A deteriorating PlayStation controller. A crumbling Mickey Mouse. A fossilized basketball. Each object was familiar yet alien, contemporary
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There’s a certain isolation I feel when I’m practicing Kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold lacquer. It’s an experience of complete immersion, where my focus narrows to the tiniest details: the delicate cracks in the ceramic, the consistency of the lacquer, the golden
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Kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, finds beauty in what others might discard. The word Kintsugi itself means “golden joinery,” and the practice emphasizes the philosophy that breakage and repair are part of an object's history, not