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The Japanese art of kintsugi mends broken pottery with gold, the cracks becoming a source of richness & beauty. In artist Makoto Fujimura's words: “The Resurrection is the ultimate kintsugi. The scars remain, but they shine with glory.” Makoto Fujimura

Herbaceous peonies and butterflies, by Ito Jakuchu, ca. 1757-1760

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Everyone should have a dad who calls at 10 pm to say, “Make sure you go out and look at the Strawberry Moon.” 🌕

Learn to repair your knitwear using Swiss darning with me next week! This is an online workshop, which will be recorded so you can watch it again collingwoodnorrisdesign.com/visible-mendin… #visiblemending #repair #beforeandafter #makedoandmend #reducewaste #swissdarning

Tree Swallows - Our Journey toward the New open.substack.com/pub/iamfujimur… Yale University Press Bucknell University

次回の個展「きみはうつくしい」 @ WHAT MUSEUM では、ひとつの物語を織りなす新作たちを用意しますが、その起点となっているのは、絵画のモチーフとしては最もありふれた、ときには「売り絵」とまで揶揄される、薔薇の絵なのでした。

“For those of us who lived in New York then, and for my children who called Ground Zero their ‘furusato’, this matters deeply. Furusato — a Japanese word that means ‘old country’ or native place — names not just geography, but emotional terrain.” From my recent essay on Frederick

I lived as a grade school child in Hase, Kamakura, Japan. How could such environs not affect deeply an aesthetic of an artist? “Art Is: A Journey into the Light”, my upcoming book from Yale University Press traces these influences. #ArtIs IAMCULTURECARE Academy Kintsugi

Belonging Conversation June, 2025 by Mako and Julia, conversing on the ecosystem of care we need to create open.substack.com/pub/iamfujimur… IAMCULTURECARE

A sketch by a #Nihonga student. #ArtIs Yale University Press

Another perspective here. Mike Cosper

Einstein's handwritten notes on relativity, ca. 1913.

“Past Lives” dir. Celine Song (2023 Sundance Film Festival)

画家にとっては、装画提供というのは本業が副次的に生んでくれたボーナスのようなもので、私は嬉しく感じる方です。 今年は既に草思社の古井由吉さんシリーズへの提供などがありますが、昨夜、新たに某社から作品を名指しで依頼を受け取りました。 もちろん、OKしております。

Eeyore came close to Pooh, and said in a loud whisper: “Could you ask your friend to do his exercises somewhere else? I shall be having lunch directly, and don’t want it bounced on before I begin. A trifling matter, and fussy of me, but we all have our little ways.” ~A.A.Milne

今はあまりしませんが、モザイク状に割った貝を螺鈿に用いる時は必要な色を集めたのち一度マスキングフィルムに貼り込みます。 そしてフィルムケースなどの角が立った円柱状のものでゴム板を下敷きに割りを入れていきます。

This, I wonder, will be similar if you were to test with brain scan using A.I. to “create art” and compare the result to scans of somatic making by hand. Some will use technology for creative gains and some for facile short cuts for transactional gains. The latter “art” will

#CultureCare is our journey into the light.