In his wonderful book Art Faith A Theology of Making renowned artist Makoto Fujimura describes the ancient Japanese art form of Kintsugi In it the artist takes broken pottery originally tea ware and pieces the shards back together with lacquer threading gold into the cracks ldquo Kintsugi rdquo Fujimura explains ldquo does not just lsquo fix rsquo or repair a broken vessel rather the technique makes the broken pottery even more beautiful than the original rdquo Kintsugi first implemented centuries ago when a warlord rsquo s favorite cup was destroyed and then beautifully restored became art that rsquo s highly [... more]

Our bus finally arrived at our much-anticipated destination mdash an archaeological dig in Israel where we would actually do some excavation work of our own The site rsquo s director explained that anything we might unearth had been untouched for thousands of years Digging up broken shards of pottery we felt as though we were touching history After an extended time we were led to a workstation where those broken pieces mdash from huge vases shattered long long ago mdash were being put back together nbsp nbsp nbsp The picture was crystal clear Those artisans reconstructing centuries-old broken pottery were [... more]