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To make is divine | Review of Art & Faith by Makoto Fujimura


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Near the middle of the artist Makoto Fujimura’s most recent book,
Art and Faith, we are told the story of 15th-century shogun Yoshimasa Ashikawa sending broken teaware to China for repair. The items were returned “fixed” using metal staples. The warlord, understandably dismayed, instructed his potter to search for a better technique, something that wouldn’t just
repair a bowl but
improve it. Ashikawa’s search, anecdotally at least, is the origin story of the art of kintsugi, or using gold to fill in the various cracks between pottery shards, “creating a work of beauty through brokenness.” For Fujimura, it’s also a symbol of the role of the artist in the world and for the role of human beings living in a fallen universe: not just to repair or curate, but to participate in the divine by using the broken fragments of our lives as the raw material for the creation of beauty. ....

Stanley Hauerwas , Makoto Fujimura , Yoshimasa Ashikawa , Simone Weil , Yusai Hosokawa , Yale University , Yale University Press , New World , மெகோடோ புஜிமுரா , சிமோன் வெயில் , யேல் பல்கலைக்கழகம் , யேல் பல்கலைக்கழகம் ப்ரெஸ் , புதியது உலகம் ,