{"id":442,"date":"2026-10-26T21:27:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yacca.jp\/art\/artist-note\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T09:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T00:30:02","slug":"artist-note","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yacca.jp\/art\/artist-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist\u2019s Note"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Over the years, I have often received inquiries from people asking if they could purchase pieces restored with kintsugi. I knew there was a demand for them, but for a long time, I was reluctant to offer such pieces for sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I restore an object for someone, there is always a reason for repairing it. In most cases, it is not because the object is particularly valuable. It may have been passed down through a family, used and cherished for many years, or brought home from a journey. What gives the restoration meaning is often the personal memory and attachment the owner has to the object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what, then, is the reason for restoring an object in order to sell it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no such personal history between the object and its future owner yet. I have always felt uneasy about simply applying kintsugi to something broken, presenting it through an overtly \u201cJapanese\u201d visual language, making it appear more valuable through the repair, and offering it for sale. The fact that there was a demand for such work was never, by itself, enough of a reason for me to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am also aware that kintsugi in which the gold lines are deliberately emphasized, sculptural elements are added, or techniques such as maki-e and raden are used to bring the artist\u2019s own expression to the foreground can be highly regarded, both in Japan and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I see this as one valid form of artistic expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, however, there has always been something uncomfortable about kintsugi becoming the main subject, with the object itself reduced to little more than a surface for the repair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, the object must come first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have long been drawn to things that have survived through history. Wear, weathering, loss, discoloration, and traces of use can give them qualities that only the passage of time can create. I am deeply attracted to forms shaped in this way by time, as well as to unintended distortions and irregularities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From among such objects, I choose those that I find beautiful and reconstruct them through kintsugi. I do not try to erase what has been lost or conceal the traces of damage. Instead, I try to reconnect them to the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not about returning an object to what it once was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is about reconnecting a flow of time that has been interrupted, and giving the object a new form in which it can continue into the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this kind of work, I found a reason for doing kintsugi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is why I started YACCA Online Gallery.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the years, I have often received inquiries from people asking if they could purchase pieces restored with kintsugi. I knew there was a demand for them, but for a long time, I was reluctant to offer such pieces for sale. When I restore an object for someone, there is always a reason for repairing … <\/p>\n

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