In a world where even a little bit imperfection is scrutinized and everyone is trying to conceal or hide their damage, Kintsugi highlights it and makes it even more beautiful. It is a Japanese art form of repairing broken pottery or ceramics with gold, silver or platinum lacquer and giving us something even more unique and exquisite from before.
It signifies that breakage, repair and the “flaw” is a part of the beauty and history of an object, to be appreciated rather than disguised. It signifies that even broken you are beautiful and valuable just the way you are, that beauty is subjective and “imperfect”, that “scars” are not something to be hidden with shame, but to be displayed with pride because that is what made you what you are and how one has fought through the difficult time in their lives and have come out stronger not despite it but rather because of it. It is a proof that you can heal and a proof of hope.
“She conquered all her demons and wore her scars like wings”
– Atticus