I am Japanese and happy someone from other race appreciate Japanese culture but this is incorrect practice of kintsugi. It is not about breaking on purpose. Just wanted to clarify ^__^
Yea I understand. But at the same time it is kinda lovely that they took something beautiful and gave it their own meaning and appreciation behind it too.
Thank you for mentioning this. I'm not Japanese (Iranian) and I wanted to explain this but you made it easy for me. The whole idea of breaking the object intentionally is against the philosophy behind kintsugi.
@@greenlight7468 Hmm, but it makes me wonder, what is the best way to use the art “kintsugi”? I feel like there aren’t enough tutorials for this concept.
The excess symbolism is so American here, and unsurprisingly, wrong in how it translates Japanese culture. The tableware is not supposed to be broken intentionally (the hammer is basically redundant), but since it adds the "dramatic factor" to the practice of her field, she wrongfully undermines the tradition of Kintsugi as a means of not just art (which is what this person believes) but also of repair in times of need, not times of selfish want. The veined beauty is a product of time, not of... hammer abuse.
わかるよ、金継ぎって綺麗だからどんどんやりたくなるよな でもそれは壊れた陶器に対して行う行為、言わば「修理」であってわざと壊したものに対して行う行為ではないのよ… I understand, Kintsugi is beautiful, so we want to do it again and again. But it's something you do to broken pottery, in other words, it's a "repair". It's not something you do to something you've intentionally broken...
I am Japanese, born and raised, and I am of a generation that enjoys Japan's current culture, for better or worse. I am happy for non-Japanese to open a Japanese restaurant, or to have bonsai or karesansui in my garden. The wearing of kimonos by non-Japanese, which people sensitively react to as cultural theft, is also received rather favorably by the majority of Japanese people. However, that does not mean that everything is acceptable. Japanese people value civility and the soul. There are traditions that are not explicitly stated, such as not throwing garbage on the street or not talking loudly in public places, and they call them manners and value them. Kintsugi is both a technique and an art, but before that, it is a soul. I believe that people are impressed by kintsugi in Japanese culture because they feel the soul in "beautifully repairing a broken object, leaving the scars intact, and making it into something unique. Therefore, it is human folly to "prepare broken things" for kintsugi, even if it is for practice. In other words, it is a clear cultural theft as far as your act is concerned.
Kintsugi is supposed to be the way to fix the accidental damage to make it look like art, not being used for intentional breakage... Please don't mess up the tradition.
So I actually think this is one of those moments of cultural appropriation which though not malicious is not right. So Kintsugi is about fixing something that broke and not wasting it and giving it a new life after misfortune.. She is not doing that. She is breaking something on purpose then remaking it, then I am assuming selling it for a profit higher that its original value. This totally going against the original philosophy.
Exactly. I appreciated her interpretation of this, but couldn't put my finger on exactly what was bothering me. Call it something else, and acknowledge your source, but don't give it the same name.
Actually I don’t sell these pieces, I use this art as a therapeutic intervention for people who are amidst challenge, change or trauma. You are right, that it is not authentic, but it is incredibly powerful when used as a method to heal. 🙏
Thank you for this little gem. I have been using the art of Kintsugi with folks participating in drug and alcohol rehab and it really gives them a different (sensory) approach to understanding the brokenness within their lives and how their past remains a part of them but the reconstruction during recovery creates a more beautiful creation.
I had a ceramic tea cup which I treasured greatly (because it was so pretty and I was broke college student, so that tea cup made drinking tea an experience for me as I couldnt afford many). My roommate while putting dishes away accidentally knocked it over and it shattered into three pieces. To say I was heart broken was an understatement. My roommate was so apologetic cause she knew I would use that cup at least 3 times a day. Sounds silly but it was just something I associated simple joy with. Long story short I couldnt part with it. Googled ways to fix it and happened upon Kintsugi. I unfortunately couldnt find the correct materials to make it usable again but with some gold paint and resin I put it back together. Its now a tiny green and gold planter for a tiny succulent I was given for a holiday party. I am not Japanese so I could 100 percent wrong, but I feel like purposely breaking good pottery to practice this art form is sort of strange. The process feels 100 percent different when you have to do unexpectedly. Again, Im not Japanese and I am no expert- perhaps Im still broke to ever justify breaking good things on purpose for art. I just feel this sort of takes away from the original idea. *Also* This isnt meant to hate on the lady. I think you have insight and its sort of therapeutic.
This is kinda sad? She use some cheap glue not resin lacquer, and i think that is not even a real gold. This craftsmanship is used on pieces who are very rare or special for our heart. Its kinda tacky. And there are even more amazing repair techniques.
Thank you. She learned how yo do it correctly then did this. And the piece she put back together was not well done. Where is the tonko powder to fix the holes? Why did she leave the joint crooked. Sloppy and disgraceful to the art form in my opinion. I can understand what she is saying but I don't like what she did.
The end result is beautiful, but it's nothing like authentic kintsugi. And I muted it halfway through so I didn't have to hear the lame, obvious, over-simplified mental health buzzword catchphrases she was using.
Oh so this is actually more of an mindful thing and learning to be slow and still.. I love that idea! 😀 But yes, the title should be something else, because those who would gain from that mindfulness idea, won't find it, and the people who thinks this is the philosofi of kintsugi, Will be disapointed. That's sad, I think.. 'Cause I love the idea of doing this for inner calmness 😊🥰
I was done when she wants to advertise her PhD. Sorry, but if I came to your office for psycho analysis then I use Dr. But a YT vid about fixing a coffee cup??? PUHLEASEEE.
@@Changesonemack Why do u have to imply (actually, literally tell us) that u possess no education? The title Dr. is part of who u a person is. Just like u state whats ur name and where u were born u can also state ur education. One states ur birthplace and gives ppl info on ur surroundings and even possibly upbringing, the other about what u have been through during ur later years in life. U may flatter urself by thinking that she needs to feel special by mentioning it in front of u but this just about u flattering urself. Tbh im not rly on board with the things she says. They are cliche for the sake of cliche in my opinion. But u cannot come hear and disrespect her entire education. Its more than u could hope for.
Ridiculous. As Japanese, I am convinced that you will NEVER understand what kind of mind kintsugi came from. You would go to the trouble of breaking a vessel to do this? If you want to do FAKE "ART", that's fine, but please don't call itself Kintsugi. This is NOT kintsugi. This is nothing more than a superficial imitation. No one goes out of their way to self harm for reason of "they are more beautiful with scars" It is the same with vessels. Kintsugi is the act of sparing a vessel that is accidentally chipped or broken, and by restoring it, loving the history of its previous use, even the history of them once broken history. Your "art" is empty.
Japan : This is our traditional art with showing philosophy of our accepting damage of object and while repair damage showing respecting history of being... This Artist : HAMMER
cultural misappropriation is different than honouring cultural heritage by expressing the inspiration than has come to us from various cultures. As an multimedia artist I want to try this practice coming from my own heritage but not to buy into possessiveness but to be at both ends of sharing. What my results are part of the ever-changing nature of culture. The philosophy of Wabi Sabi is about impermanence, imperfection, and ever unfinished.
This is not the Japanese culture of kintsugi. Feel free to do this for healing, but don't treat it like Kintsugi. You could call it "destruction patchwork."😅
As someone who works at a school with trauma ( south side of Chicago ) I am looking forward to showing this video to my students so that we can repair some of our ceramics that blew up or cracked in the kiln No, I'm not thrilled by this intentional breaking of something to repair it to "look pretty". I think on the surface, this is what it appears Dr. Altman is doing. So from an art teacher perspective, I don't like this too much However, then from a mental health perspective, I really like this video. My students spent two weeks working with clay, struggling with it, finally making something they liked... and it comes out of the kiln broken. I wouldn't be surprised if a few physically throw their work away in the garbage BUT I'm hoping that this video will make them slow down... the blowing up & cracking wasn't something they could control, and it sucks ( pardon me ) that it happened, BUT that doesn't mean their artwork is now 100% useless It's going to be hard to encourage my students to not give up on themselves or their artwork when they see just how many blew up & cracked after firing... however, just as Dr. Altman was saying about mindfulness and sitting with our broken parts and wanting to repair ourselves, this *awful* clay unit in art class might be a really good chance for a life lesson on how to recover when something goes wrong (like trauma)
As an ex art student, I wish you were one of my teachers. Secondly, I feel the same.. I have cracks and have fallen so many times and broken. Still I wish to be beautiful in a way that I see in myself. Please help out som of your students with some of their baggage. They need people like u.
you're not supposed to break it on purpose in some kind of spiritual way, but shrugging that off, I can understand breaking it just because you want to make a kintsugi piece, but gluing it together and painting it with metallic paint is totally different from the actual way of doing it, which is attaching the bits together with laquer and powdering gold on it, which also looks a thousand times better and makes the piece useable, without holes in it
this is just an application of the practice to a therapeutic cause. in that light, intentional breaking makes sense. nobody wants you to break your own pottery on purpose. i liked the video for that purpose.
Nothing screams "pretentious" more than a white woman teaching people about ancient Japanese arts and the deeper meaning she personally assigned to them.
You people are so fucking sensitive. Everyone's allowed to have their own viewpoint on things. If you disagree with hers, that's fine but nothing screams "pretentious" more than you bringing up someone's race and gender and believing that is the determining value in someone's belief system.
@@bloodmoonyt1901 if an Asian person tried to do a video about Jesus and being a republican according to him, you'd loose you minds. No go back to something you're qualified to whine about like tucker Carlson and leave the rest of us to keep thriving
Is it just me or does anyone else think that purposefully breaking something only to put it back together and then claim it's art is kinda strange? It seems to me it goes against the whole spirit of kintsugi.
The moment I saw her breaking the bowl on purpose I stopped watching. Goodful, do some research before making a video, let true craftsman show how it is done.
I’m a social worker and I think this would be a really good way of therapy and have a physical representation of healing. Whether or not it is directly authentic, its a great analogy. And sometimes therapy is purposely breaking your secret open so that you can heal so even the breaking of it yourself is a choice instead of dealing with what other people have broken.
well it would be harder to wait around for a bowl or vase to break in order to do this. I think this video is less about the authenticity and more about the technique itself
You have to fill the cracks , let it dry to do it again and again , I have a whole box of kintsugi ‘tools ‘, it takes a month to complete . She only got a hammer , cheap glue , a brush and gold paint !
I don’t think the point was for it to be beautiful or useful. I do think it was partially incorrect in the way that she broke the bowl on purpose, but I think the point of this is about self love, acceptance, and being able to be happy with who you are. Cause in the video she was making a lot of statements about not hiding the cracks or covering the cracks up in the bowl. Instead she did the opposite and highlighted the cracks to make them stand out. Also i actually think it turned out beautifully in the end
There's a deeper meaning in it..even if we fail,or broken in some places in our lives,God moulds and mends us ,He in His grace joins the pieces and uses us for His glory.. whoever is going through all the brokenness, remember God is working on your pain .. Just trust.. love and prayers from India.
step 1: break it step 2: look at the pieces step 3: glue is about glue step 4: dont forget to breath while waiting step 5: holes are places where stuff isnt step 6: gold is fancy looking step 7: eat cereal
I'm learning about kintsugi to teach a high school class about it but create a project with a concept of "it broke, fix it" and they will mend a slab cylinder with an open wall closed with yarn. It's obviously very general and using the concept of kintsugi in a very very loose way. but i look forward to teaching them the philosophy surrounding kintsugi, its valuable to me and i believe my students could benefit from it I ended up on this video but i knew right away that what she was saying was not accurate to the real japanese traditions. honestly right when i heard her voice i knew this video wouldn't be accurate.
Life is like this - like scars and injuries. Let the wounds heal, by remembering instead of forgetting. Accept the existence and respect these wounds and let them tell their stories.
Some of y’all mad she intentionally broke a dish to make this video and some of y’all mad she used glue instead of Lacquer and as someone who has studied Japanese and Japanese culture abroad, she is completely entitled to express herself through artwork however she wants. At no point in this video did she claim she was using the traditional method of kintsugi. She observed an aspect of cultural art form and applied it metaphorically to her life. So unless y’all are gunna claim the Japanese invented the idea of glueing broken dish ware back together and painting ceramics, let her just enjoy what she does.
yes, indeed, we all had our hammers in our lives, we still have gaps and missings. I understood the meaning of breaking the bowl intentionally. It's about the philosophy behind it. It's not just repairing things. A broken life cannot be repaired or glued and painted as nothing had happened but it can be brought back and renewed with the experience we've been through.
You don't hammer ceramics. If you apply that explanation (which is practically similar to the value of kitsugi in Japanese) THEN THAT MEAN HUMAN RIGHT ABUSE IS BEAUTIFUL FOR YOU!!! This is Japanese way of giving new life to a something that you value but deteriorated due to old age!!!
So many of these commenters have clearly forgotten what an object lesson is and have rather chosen to jump on a bandwagon relegating independent thinking to others. This video was NOT a tutorial on kintsugi, people, but a way to visually communicate a common human experience with a beautiful and very fitting art form that happens to come from another culture that we appreciate. Thank you, Dr. Altman, for the effective visual. I benefited from what I believe was your intended purpose.
I’m Japanese. I don’t wanna be offensive, But this is not correct. I think many people will get my feelings. The main reason we repair using kintsugi technique is like this . You have so much memories and love for the cup and used carefully but accidentally you broke it or worn out. Can you just throw it away? Maybe it’s a gift from your grandma who died. You can’t throw it away as garbage. Then, you use kintsugi techniques and use it. So kintsugi cup is never better than a nonbreaked cup. So breaking it on purpose is almost opposite . Is it difficult for foreign people? I think all humans has one of those culture So I was surprised to see this. For example you have a 50year old retro bike given from your grandpa.You fixed and fixed a lot. Buying a a new car will be easy and money saving but you love that old car. Something like that
There is a wonderful sister doing your teaching. I believe after reading the correct meaning of this beautiful purposeful art, she should have people bring what is already broken then give them the tools to make their kintsugi Art. However, your bowl came out beautiful 😍
It's one thing to ignore the point of this practice by purposefully breaking a ceramic, but you didn't replace the missing parts or seal it either. You just painted gold paint on the cracks. So... this isn't even properly done, either.
some days ago i dropped a jar from a window, and it smashed on the pavement, broken in dozens of pieces. i thought about repairing it "kintsugi style" because it's a piece from a set of 5. now that i've seen this video, i see a lot more in this broken jar than just a pile of debris for a craft project. let's hope i can revive it!
I can understand making the most of a broken vase or other decorative object by embellishing it but I cannot understand breaking an object even if for a video demonstration. I've just glued back together a beautiful new terracotta Italian-style vase badly broken in transit from the seller and will cover it with filler/spackling and then chalk paint.
This one exist also in my culture in Burundi 🇧🇮🇧🇮🇧🇮🇧🇮🇧🇮. We call it: "Ikiremo" in short or in full : "Gutera ikiremo". Amazing, Burundi 🇧🇮🇧🇮🇧🇮 and Japan sharing the same culture.
I really love this. The brokenness makes it more beautiful, just like people. I'm going to do this. I think it can be really cathartic. Thank you for sharing.
Pinkenstein I recommend that you try it. It is incredibly cathartic and evokes all kinds of interesting personal reactions. Would love to hear what you discover.
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I am Japanese and happy someone from other race appreciate Japanese culture but this is incorrect practice of kintsugi. It is not about breaking on purpose. Just wanted to clarify ^__^
Yea I understand. But at the same time it is kinda lovely that they took something beautiful and gave it their own meaning and appreciation behind it too.
Thank you for mentioning this. I'm not Japanese (Iranian) and I wanted to explain this but you made it easy for me. The whole idea of breaking the object intentionally is against the philosophy behind kintsugi.
ほんとそう。たまたま見つけた動画で、これほど嫌な気分になったのは久しぶり。
Sezi Mik In a way, it is actually the direct opposite of said philosophy. Instead of less consumerism, it turns into mystified stylishness.
I was thinking Just the same.
金継ぎは「大切に使っていた器が割れてしまった時に修繕する手段」です。日本の技術ではありますが、日本の芸術ではありません。
その独特の金の模様が美しく感じるのはとてもよく分かりますが、器を壊すくらいなら、そういう模様をつける陶芸家になれば良いと思います。
日本の宗教観のベースにある神道を調べてみて欲しいです。
日本は物を大切に長く使う国なので、修繕技術をこのように使われているのはとても悲しいです。
hey, uhh sorry, but this video was made like 5 years ago? I think the uploader wouldn’t notice
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そうですね、気がつかないと思います。ですが、私のコメントはあくまでこの動画を観た人に、金継ぎの技術が誤解されることを防ぐためです。
今日本では、海外から多くの方が訪れています。熱心な人は日本の文化を勉強してから来日してくださいます。そのような方に、芸術のために食器を割る国だと思われたくないのです。
また、既に沢山の方がコメントしていましたが、日本特有の宗教観や慣習や感性に触れている方は少なく思えましたので投稿した次第です。
ほとんど自己満足のようなものです、ご心配ありがとうございます。
@@greenlight7468 Hmm, but it makes me wonder, what is the best way to use the art “kintsugi”? I feel like there aren’t enough tutorials for this concept.
@@healthychannel9323
金継ぎはそもそも芸術ではなく修復術です。身近なもので言えば接着剤や糊に該当します。
確かに美術的に美しいことは間違いないですが、それはあくまで修復した結果に付随する副産的価値です。大切なものを壊してしまった時の対処法が、結果として美しかっただけのこと。
金継ぎそのものは芸術ではありません。
陶器ですから、絵付けの段階で金継ぎのような模様を施せば良いのであって、わざわざ割る必要はないのです。
長く大切に使うための技法であり、壊して美しくするための術ではないのです。
不注意でお皿を割ってしまった時には是非とも使っていただきたい技法ですが、物を壊してまで使って欲しくないというのが私の思いです。
極論で言えば“金継ぎのために物を割るな”です。
文化圏が違うのでなかなか難しい価値観なのかもしれませんね。
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金継ぎはそもそもの用途は糊や接着剤と同じです。金で装飾を施し、漆の跡や割れ目を誤魔化しているだけにすぎません。結果的に美しく見えるというだけです。金継ぎは芸術ではないのです。糊を使うために絵画を破いたりはしないでしょう。
絵画にも陶器にも作者がいます。作者も壊される前提で作ったりしませんし、私たちも作者に敬意を持って大切に使います。だからこそ金継ぎという技法が生まれたのです。
金継ぎが美しい見た目をしているのはとてもよくわかります。ですがそれなら、金継ぎをしたような模様がある陶器を作成すれば良いだけで、壊す必要はないのです。
少々言葉使いが悪くなりますが、“金継ぎを使うために食器を割るな”ということです。大切に使うために一度壊すなんて本末転倒です。
文化圏が違うので難しい価値観かもしれませんが、どうかご理解いただきたいですね。
The excess symbolism is so American here, and unsurprisingly, wrong in how it translates Japanese culture. The tableware is not supposed to be broken intentionally (the hammer is basically redundant), but since it adds the "dramatic factor" to the practice of her field, she wrongfully undermines the tradition of Kintsugi as a means of not just art (which is what this person believes) but also of repair in times of need, not times of selfish want. The veined beauty is a product of time, not of... hammer abuse.
わかるよ、金継ぎって綺麗だからどんどんやりたくなるよな
でもそれは壊れた陶器に対して行う行為、言わば「修理」であってわざと壊したものに対して行う行為ではないのよ…
I understand, Kintsugi is beautiful, so we want to do it again and again.
But it's something you do to broken pottery, in other words, it's a "repair". It's not something you do to something you've intentionally broken...
I am Japanese, born and raised, and I am of a generation that enjoys Japan's current culture, for better or worse.
I am happy for non-Japanese to open a Japanese restaurant, or to have bonsai or karesansui in my garden.
The wearing of kimonos by non-Japanese, which people sensitively react to as cultural theft, is also received rather favorably by the majority of Japanese people.
However, that does not mean that everything is acceptable.
Japanese people value civility and the soul.
There are traditions that are not explicitly stated, such as not throwing garbage on the street or not talking loudly in public places, and they call them manners and value them.
Kintsugi is both a technique and an art, but before that, it is a soul.
I believe that people are impressed by kintsugi in Japanese culture because they feel the soul in "beautifully repairing a broken object, leaving the scars intact, and making it into something unique.
Therefore, it is human folly to "prepare broken things" for kintsugi, even if it is for practice.
In other words, it is a clear cultural theft as far as your act is concerned.
世界中のたくさんのコメントが、これは金継ぎではないと説明してくれて嬉しい。
背景の精神まで含めて初めて金継ぎと呼ぶべきだ。
Kintsugi is supposed to be the way to fix the accidental damage to make it look like art, not being used for intentional breakage...
Please don't mess up the tradition.
Traditions die without being embraced in new ways.
i thought it was just for the demonstration
Without demonstrations there's no learning that can be done.
This process is inspired by Kintsugi. We can access many of the beautiful lessons that this art has to offer
It's a video. Chill. It's a demonstration.
なぜ完成している器をわざわざ壊して金継ぎするのか理解に苦しむ
他の方が述べているとおり、金継ぎは「壊れてしまった」器を修復するための技術
So I actually think this is one of those moments of cultural appropriation which though not malicious is not right. So Kintsugi is about fixing something that broke and not wasting it and giving it a new life after misfortune.. She is not doing that. She is breaking something on purpose then remaking it, then I am assuming selling it for a profit higher that its original value. This totally going against the original philosophy.
Exactly. I appreciated her interpretation of this, but couldn't put my finger on exactly what was bothering me. Call it something else, and acknowledge your source, but don't give it the same name.
Actually I don’t sell these pieces, I use this art as a therapeutic intervention for people who are amidst challenge, change or trauma. You are right, that it is not authentic, but it is incredibly powerful when used as a method to heal. 🙏
@@dr.alexaaltman2024 Every craft and Hobby is Therapeutic, this is just one of many things you can do as a method to heal
dangeldoll I completely agree
Perhaps calling it Kintsugi Therapy would be better?
Thank you for this little gem. I have been using the art of Kintsugi with folks participating in drug and alcohol rehab and it really gives them a different (sensory) approach to understanding the brokenness within their lives and how their past remains a part of them but the reconstruction during recovery creates a more beautiful creation.
well this is not really Kintsugi, just call it DIY Kintsugi
🤣
I agree, not only the deliberately breaking part, the repairing is also totally different from that of Kintsugi
金継は芸術から始まったわけじゃなくて災害大国の実用的な面から生まれた技術です。自分で陶器を壊して繋ぎ合わせるのは本来の「金継」の意図から外れています。
I had a ceramic tea cup which I treasured greatly (because it was so pretty and I was broke college student, so that tea cup made drinking tea an experience for me as I couldnt afford many).
My roommate while putting dishes away accidentally knocked it over and it shattered into three pieces.
To say I was heart broken was an understatement. My roommate was so apologetic cause she knew I would use that cup at least 3 times a day. Sounds silly but it was just something I associated simple joy with.
Long story short I couldnt part with it. Googled ways to fix it and happened upon Kintsugi. I unfortunately couldnt find the correct materials to make it usable again but with some gold paint and resin I put it back together.
Its now a tiny green and gold planter for a tiny succulent I was given for a holiday party.
I am not Japanese so I could 100 percent wrong, but I feel like purposely breaking good pottery to practice this art form is sort of strange. The process feels 100 percent different when you have to do unexpectedly.
Again, Im not Japanese and I am no expert- perhaps Im still broke to ever justify breaking good things on purpose for art. I just feel this sort of takes away from the original idea.
*Also*
This isnt meant to hate on the lady. I think you have insight and its sort of therapeutic.
How long did the process take you?
This is kinda sad? She use some cheap glue not resin lacquer, and i think that is not even a real gold. This craftsmanship is used on pieces who are very rare or special for our heart. Its kinda tacky. And there are even more amazing repair techniques.
Thank you. She learned how yo do it correctly then did this. And the piece she put back together was not well done. Where is the tonko powder to fix the holes? Why did she leave the joint crooked. Sloppy and disgraceful to the art form in my opinion. I can understand what she is saying but I don't like what she did.
yeah, or at least use ramen
Something to be said for authentic art, masters and their apprentices...
Boo hoo theyre not gonna drop 10k on a tutorial
@@poopybutt7390 she could have used the footage of her in Japan. Or bought a 200$ kit
The end result is beautiful, but it's nothing like authentic kintsugi. And I muted it halfway through so I didn't have to hear the lame, obvious, over-simplified mental health buzzword catchphrases she was using.
@alexa altman the video is literally titled "the art of kintsugi" dont bs me and tell me you wernt trying to represent the original tradition
literally what i was thinking!
Oh so this is actually more of an mindful thing and learning to be slow and still.. I love that idea! 😀
But yes, the title should be something else, because those who would gain from that mindfulness idea, won't find it, and the people who thinks this is the philosofi of kintsugi, Will be disapointed. That's sad, I think.. 'Cause I love the idea of doing this for inner calmness 😊🥰
I was done when she wants to advertise her PhD. Sorry, but if I came to your office for psycho analysis then I use Dr. But a YT vid about fixing a coffee cup??? PUHLEASEEE.
@@Changesonemack Why do u have to imply (actually, literally tell us) that u possess no education? The title Dr. is part of who u a person is. Just like u state whats ur name and where u were born u can also state ur education. One states ur birthplace and gives ppl info on ur surroundings and even possibly upbringing, the other about what u have been through during ur later years in life. U may flatter urself by thinking that she needs to feel special by mentioning it in front of u but this just about u flattering urself. Tbh im not rly on board with the things she says. They are cliche for the sake of cliche in my opinion. But u cannot come hear and disrespect her entire education. Its more than u could hope for.
I really don't think that this represents Kintsugi accurately at all.
That it does not.
yeah because she’s a female
She literally went there and learned it 😂
Well she ain't gonna fucking sit around waiting for something to break. Twat.
@@AJediSurvivor hey there snowflake! who let you off your leash?
Ridiculous.
As Japanese, I am convinced that you will NEVER understand what kind of mind kintsugi came from.
You would go to the trouble of breaking a vessel to do this?
If you want to do FAKE "ART", that's fine, but please don't call itself Kintsugi.
This is NOT kintsugi. This is nothing more than a superficial imitation.
No one goes out of their way to self harm for reason of "they are more beautiful with scars"
It is the same with vessels.
Kintsugi is the act of sparing a vessel that is accidentally chipped or broken, and by restoring it, loving the history of its previous use, even the history of them once broken history.
Your "art" is empty.
Bish please. You just super glued a bowl back together.
うわ、最悪
物を大切に扱う心から生まれた技術なのに
When cultural appropriation manifests as a derivative-esque analogy. Dr., you make psychology and western culture look bad.
" When you're holding a hammer, everything around you looks like a nail."
"Healing is about connection, not perfection" As someone whose struggled with mental health my whole life, this quote was really cool.
I don't think she understands Kintsugi
I think she understand the opposite of Kintsugi
ひどい。
割れた物を長く大切に使う文化であり技術なのに。この人は全く逆の事をしている。
これが日本文化だと思わないで欲しい。
Japan : This is our traditional art with showing philosophy of our accepting damage of object and while repair damage showing respecting history of being...
This Artist : HAMMER
“Do not fix it right away”
*takes out glue*
For people looking for authentic Kintsugi videos there is literally a YT channel called Kintsugi. Amazing process.
cultural misappropriation is different than honouring cultural heritage by expressing the inspiration than has come to us from various cultures. As an multimedia artist I want to try this practice coming from my own heritage but not to buy into possessiveness but to be at both ends of sharing. What my results are part of the ever-changing nature of culture. The philosophy of Wabi Sabi is about impermanence, imperfection, and ever unfinished.
Deerheart Adornments so beautifully stated.
This is not the Japanese culture of kintsugi. Feel free to do this for healing, but don't treat it like Kintsugi. You could call it "destruction patchwork."😅
this is super glue it and paint the crack gold...
I think even if don’t use the correct method, at least make the repair look good. Using cheap clumpy glue and paint made me cringe.
As someone who works at a school with trauma ( south side of Chicago ) I am looking forward to showing this video to my students so that we can repair some of our ceramics that blew up or cracked in the kiln
No, I'm not thrilled by this intentional breaking of something to repair it to "look pretty". I think on the surface, this is what it appears Dr. Altman is doing. So from an art teacher perspective, I don't like this too much
However, then from a mental health perspective, I really like this video. My students spent two weeks working with clay, struggling with it, finally making something they liked... and it comes out of the kiln broken. I wouldn't be surprised if a few physically throw their work away in the garbage
BUT I'm hoping that this video will make them slow down... the blowing up & cracking wasn't something they could control, and it sucks ( pardon me ) that it happened, BUT that doesn't mean their artwork is now 100% useless
It's going to be hard to encourage my students to not give up on themselves or their artwork when they see just how many blew up & cracked after firing... however, just as Dr. Altman was saying about mindfulness and sitting with our broken parts and wanting to repair ourselves, this *awful* clay unit in art class might be a really good chance for a life lesson on how to recover when something goes wrong (like trauma)
Please share something more authentic to your students so you are not passing on misinformation.
As an ex art student, I wish you were one of my teachers. Secondly, I feel the same.. I have cracks and have fallen so many times and broken. Still I wish to be beautiful in a way that I see in myself.
Please help out som of your students with some of their baggage. They need people like u.
Who's here after listening to Lana Del Rey?
me! what a beatiful song. It brought me to tears
you're not supposed to break it on purpose in some kind of spiritual way, but shrugging that off, I can understand breaking it just because you want to make a kintsugi piece, but gluing it together and painting it with metallic paint is totally different from the actual way of doing it, which is attaching the bits together with laquer and powdering gold on it, which also looks a thousand times better and makes the piece useable, without holes in it
Now I got an excuse for destroying all my mom's dishes.
LOL!
haha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only thing getting hammered, other than her bowl, is her actually thinking that this is Kintsugi.
this is just an application of the practice to a therapeutic cause. in that light, intentional breaking makes sense. nobody wants you to break your own pottery on purpose. i liked the video for that purpose.
Except if it's not a part of the tradition, she is presenting it as part of the process. If it's not, it's not.
That's actually appropriation.
@@tdez6060 cultures are not owned, they exists, coexist, overlap, get shared, can and should enrich peoples lives. It flows in many ways.
こんなの金継ぎって言わない。
You DO NOT purposely break vessels for this historical restoration and artisanal purpose!
You broke a perfectly good bowl
Ya know, if you want it only for the aesthetic, you can just paint gold lines on your bowl.
00:23 "alexa altman, phd" Good Lord, wtf does Phd have to do with Kintsugi? Or is it that you wanna rub your degree all over people's face?
If you watched the video, then you'll know it has to do more with wholesomeness and observing our histories than it does about pottery.
Get a load of this loser without a phd.
@@aldobocanegra8440sooo… what does that have to do with the PhD?
Nothing screams "pretentious" more than a white woman teaching people about ancient Japanese arts and the deeper meaning she personally assigned to them.
This.
Yes! This is the comment I was searching for, well said.
You people are so fucking sensitive. Everyone's allowed to have their own viewpoint on things. If you disagree with hers, that's fine but nothing screams "pretentious" more than you bringing up someone's race and gender and believing that is the determining value in someone's belief system.
Nothing screams "pretentious" like people who have to bring race and gender into everything.
@@bloodmoonyt1901 if an Asian person tried to do a video about Jesus and being a republican according to him, you'd loose you minds. No go back to something you're qualified to whine about like tucker Carlson and leave the rest of us to keep thriving
If I want to apply this kind of kintsugi to my own life, should I start by smoking meth and then pursue a PhD?
Yes, that would work
Is it just me or does anyone else think that purposefully breaking something only to put it back together and then claim it's art is kinda strange? It seems to me it goes against the whole spirit of kintsugi.
何も理解していないなら何もやらないで。それだけです。
As same as everyone here says, the porpose of Kintsugi is not breaking something.Please include a note of correction in the video.
The moment I saw her breaking the bowl on purpose I stopped watching. Goodful, do some research before making a video, let true craftsman show how it is done.
@alexa altman I am looking to go to Japan an learn, could you please tell me where and with whom you did learn in Japan. Thank you, have a nice day.
I’m a social worker and I think this would be a really good way of therapy and have a physical representation of healing. Whether or not it is directly authentic, its a great analogy. And sometimes therapy is purposely breaking your secret open so that you can heal so even the breaking of it yourself is a choice instead of dealing with what other people have broken.
well it would be harder to wait around for a bowl or vase to break in order to do this. I think this video is less about the authenticity and more about the technique itself
初めっから違うんだよなぁ…
You have to fill the cracks , let it dry to do it again and again , I have a whole box of kintsugi ‘tools ‘, it takes a month to complete . She only got a hammer , cheap glue , a brush and gold paint !
good for you.
@@kristianpoulsen9689 surely
The end result was neither beutiful or useful. Not the way you wanna end up in life. Plus, she ruined a really nice bowl...
I don’t think the point was for it to be beautiful or useful. I do think it was partially incorrect in the way that she broke the bowl on purpose, but I think the point of this is about self love, acceptance, and being able to be happy with who you are. Cause in the video she was making a lot of statements about not hiding the cracks or covering the cracks up in the bowl. Instead she did the opposite and highlighted the cracks to make them stand out. Also i actually think it turned out beautifully in the end
これじゃない感がすごい
Kintsugi is not like this at all. This video is cultural appropriation.
"Healing comes through connection, not perfection"
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This is more like kintsugi "wanna-be"
There's a deeper meaning in it..even if we fail,or broken in some places in our lives,God moulds and mends us ,He in His grace joins the pieces and uses us for His glory.. whoever is going through all the brokenness, remember God is working on your pain .. Just trust.. love and prayers from India.
Thanks for the good words
Gold speaks of that which is divine- true wholeness comes from God himself…
金継ぎの何たるかがなんにも分かってない人がやるとこうなるんだなって…。😢
本当に悲しくなるわ。
I appreciate this as a beautiful life metaphor. I think this is meant to be a lesson on repairing ourselves, not pottery.
It's like a painting restorer damaging works of art to show off his skills.
金継ぎは愛しんだ物が壊れてしまったのを惜しんでなおす行為なのに最初に破壊するなんて
物への愛の無さが伺えてとても悲しい
step 1: break it
step 2: look at the pieces
step 3: glue is about glue
step 4: dont forget to breath while waiting
step 5: holes are places where stuff isnt
step 6: gold is fancy looking
step 7: eat cereal
I'm learning about kintsugi to teach a high school class about it but create a project with a concept of "it broke, fix it" and they will mend a slab cylinder with an open wall closed with yarn. It's obviously very general and using the concept of kintsugi in a very very loose way. but i look forward to teaching them the philosophy surrounding kintsugi, its valuable to me and i believe my students could benefit from it
I ended up on this video but i knew right away that what she was saying was not accurate to the real japanese traditions. honestly right when i heard her voice i knew this video wouldn't be accurate.
Life is like this - like scars and injuries. Let the wounds heal, by remembering instead of forgetting. Accept the existence and respect these wounds and let them tell their stories.
Breaking and pasting something that is solid indicates that there is a problem in your way of thinking.
Some of y’all mad she intentionally broke a dish to make this video and some of y’all mad she used glue instead of Lacquer and as someone who has studied Japanese and Japanese culture abroad, she is completely entitled to express herself through artwork however she wants. At no point in this video did she claim she was using the traditional method of kintsugi. She observed an aspect of cultural art form and applied it metaphorically to her life. So unless y’all are gunna claim the Japanese invented the idea of glueing broken dish ware back together and painting ceramics, let her just enjoy what she does.
Well call it something else then. Call it "How to glue back a purposefully broken bowl using glue and gold glitter", not Kintsugi.
@@darkstarrone8764 Ikr if some of the comments didn’t say she was doing it wrong I would’ve believed this was the way of kintsugi
Well that was disappointing.
Basically it's Kintsugi Art not "art of kintsugi"
We all get hammered 😏
Or nailed ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
金継ぎは補習技術が芸術に昇華したものであって、意図的に破壊するのは資材を浪費する行為であり、金継ぎの持つ意義に反している。
文化的意味や物の大切さを理解出来ていない以上、仕上がりがどれだけ美しくとも、卑しい偽物でしかない。
これは土産物屋のIconと同じだ。
yes, indeed, we all had our hammers in our lives, we still have gaps and missings. I understood the meaning of breaking the bowl intentionally. It's about the philosophy behind it. It's not just repairing things. A broken life cannot be repaired or glued and painted as nothing had happened but it can be brought back and renewed with the experience we've been through.
I wouldn’t break any piece on purpose, but this is how I’ll mend whatever I can that is broken.
The face of cultural appropriation.
You don't hammer ceramics. If you apply that explanation (which is practically similar to the value of kitsugi in Japanese)
THEN THAT MEAN HUMAN RIGHT ABUSE IS BEAUTIFUL FOR YOU!!!
This is Japanese way of giving new life to a something that you value but deteriorated due to old age!!!
Kintsugi isn't supposed to be done on ceramics you are breaking purposely.
How to ridicule a wonderful process!
So many of these commenters have clearly forgotten what an object lesson is and have rather chosen to jump on a bandwagon relegating independent thinking to others. This video was NOT a tutorial on kintsugi, people, but a way to visually communicate a common human experience with a beautiful and very fitting art form that happens to come from another culture that we appreciate. Thank you, Dr. Altman, for the effective visual. I benefited from what I believe was your intended purpose.
I’m Japanese. I don’t wanna be offensive,
But this is not correct.
I think many people will get my feelings.
The main reason we repair using kintsugi technique is like this . You have so much memories and love for the cup and used carefully but accidentally you broke it or worn out. Can you just throw it away?
Maybe it’s a gift from your grandma who died. You can’t throw it away as garbage.
Then, you use kintsugi techniques and use it. So kintsugi cup is never better than a nonbreaked cup. So breaking it on purpose is almost opposite .
Is it difficult for foreign people?
I think all humans has one of those culture
So I was surprised to see this.
For example you have a 50year old retro bike given from your grandpa.You fixed and fixed a lot. Buying a a new car will be easy and money saving but you love that old car. Something like that
There is a wonderful sister doing your teaching. I believe after reading the correct meaning of this beautiful purposeful art, she should have people bring what is already broken then give them the tools to make their kintsugi Art. However, your bowl came out beautiful 😍
Me: Mom? Can you buy new bowls? My soup is falling out of the bowls.
Mom: We have bowls at home.
Bowls at home:
I don't believe I spent the time to flick through this.
アートだけど金継ぎではない。
金継ぎと言うなら壊すな。
漆を使え。
It's one thing to ignore the point of this practice by purposefully breaking a ceramic, but you didn't replace the missing parts or seal it either. You just painted gold paint on the cracks. So... this isn't even properly done, either.
Nice video, liked what she was saying would’ve been nice if she told us what she was using to rejoin and make golden.
Poor bowl…broken purposefully
I'm just shocked that she broke an unbroken piece to "repair" it.
some days ago i dropped a jar from a window, and it smashed on the pavement, broken in dozens of pieces. i thought about repairing it "kintsugi style" because it's a piece from a set of 5. now that i've seen this video, i see a lot more in this broken jar than just a pile of debris for a craft project. let's hope i can revive it!
I can understand making the most of a broken vase or other decorative object by embellishing it but I cannot understand breaking an object even if for a video demonstration. I've just glued back together a beautiful new terracotta Italian-style vase badly broken in transit from the seller and will cover it with filler/spackling and then chalk paint.
see Christian Bonner "authentic kintsugi repair"
I always thought you are not supposed to break something intentionally? 😅
This one exist also in my culture in Burundi 🇧🇮🇧🇮🇧🇮🇧🇮🇧🇮.
We call it: "Ikiremo" in short or in full : "Gutera ikiremo".
Amazing, Burundi 🇧🇮🇧🇮🇧🇮 and Japan sharing the same culture.
@Salnsd I think that it just a surprise. The ikiremo exists more than 600 years in Burundi.
DO NOT breat intentionally - this is NOT Kintsugi
I'm here after watching Loki
Love the analogy!
the intro gives me anxiety
you're not supposed to break it on purpose.....
A bowl has NO story to tell. What is it gunna say?
“Oh you know a week ago I had rice in me and then had rice me everyday” the Bowl
I really love this. The brokenness makes it more beautiful, just like people. I'm going to do this. I think it can be really cathartic. Thank you for sharing.
Pinkenstein I recommend that you try it. It is incredibly cathartic and evokes all kinds of interesting personal reactions. Would love to hear what you discover.
I broke my mug and Google how to fix it...
This is way to deeper than what I'm looking for.
Pretty sure the hammer is not needed in your tool kit.
The words were nice, but the technique of kintsugi wasn’t used here. It’s a much more involved & flawless transformation.