The “golden repair” mindset encourages us to see failure as a chance to grow—a lesson we can apply to our own lives. Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese art form that offers a profound metaphor for ...

Imagine a beloved object: a cup, a plate or a bowl. Perhaps your favourite auntie owned it, or was it found in another country and shipped safely home? Now it is broken, fallen into a small handful of ...

SONOMA, Calif. (KGO) -- In her Sonoma home, artist Maki Aizawa holds a broken plate. "When something breaks, we tend to throw it away," she said. "But we don't have to throw it away and don't have to ...

Kintsugi is the traditional Japanese art where broken pottery is repaired with gold lacquer. The artwork transforms broken objects into beautiful masterpieces. Kintsugi symbolizes embracing beauty in ...

What is broken cannot be mended, goes a popular saying. But the Japanese think otherwise as they embrace the concept of wabi-sabi, a philosophy that strives for beauty in imperfections. Kintsugi, the ...