Tag: Helen Cullen

The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually was initially inspired by the Japanese art of kintsugi – the practice of repairing broken pottery with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. The breakage, and the repair, remains visible to show the history of an object rather than something to be disguised, and so the pots become even more beautiful than before they were broken. As any family spans decades, both hairline fractures and critical breaks can damage its foundations. Some tragedies seem insurmountable; we …