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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth, and Christians have been called to create ever since. At least, that’s the focus of Baylor’s new suite of faith and arts chapels the artistic wing of the chapel department’s push to give students a more personalized chapel experience. By Jackson Posey | Reporter ....
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Print this article 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. ....