Unit 2 - Processes- M&M -Kintsugi artying up the everyday.

This is a process that fascinates me and I have just found a smashed madonna that my mother bought me when I was just 7 or 8. Gutted and tearful, I put it away at the moment of its destruction, on a high bookshelf out of site and out of mind hoping to be able to return to it once I had found a way to repair it. I am going to start practising On some less precious pieces and bowls and see if the process would be fit for purpose. The epoxy glue and gold powder has arrived and I'm reviewing the videos and instructions. I shall record the process as part of my construction and deconstruction project in which knowledge is obtained and required to complete a task and may be make a painting, collage, zine or banner to celebrate the event. Completely self indulgent and a therapeutic way to remake my emotionally imbued object so I may enjoy it once again as a memento libra/vivre, celebrating my ability to mend and overcome.

Kintsugi has connections to my processes of last year, making through repair and correction, changing to find an answer that sits better with who you have become - Through the passing of time and accumulation of what we euphemistically describe as baggage.

Along with my observations of the dangers of stagnation or resistance, i have observed the benefits of embracing change. I personally feel that change is a necessity to avoid premature death or a living death.

I have just started to oversee the renovation and repairs to my mothers water supply, bore hole and tanks. This is a necessity due to the fact that nothing is for ever and nature will invade if not repelled.

It is a great project for make and mend and is wonderfully practical, collaboration is a necessity as I’m not an engineer and my mother wants what she wants. It will be a practical negotiation involving Health and safety, updating with technology all the while keeping an aesthetic and gentle eye on the out come as so not to destroy a place I love.

I have included in this blog some images of my moon jars and repairs to the Magna Carter(in the case of Brexit).

I never found a way to include kintsugi that time, it felt contrived but i did make pots and paintings through correction and collage, piecing together and jigsawing images and materials to make surfaces and containers in which to hold and display thoughts and emotions.

My current adventures with the water and the objects both connected to my mother feel more personal and dig deeper in to my own experiences, which Leonardo Da Vinci wrote was a necessary part of an artists modus operandi. I wonder if these experiences doing, mending reviewing and researching in this manner will leave me enriched as Kenneth clark insisted art should. If they do there is definitely an argument for artying up the every day to create learning experiences within the every day that are not only practical, serve a purpose but also nurture and enrich the soul.

I shall only find out by trying.

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