The Interesting Connection

There's an artist here in Lyon who finds cracks in the street and makes beautiful tile designs within said cracks.  His name is Emenem.  I've personally seen a few of his pieces, hither thither and yon. 

I started seeing his art soon after reading about kintsugi in that Ichigo Ichie book I've told you about.  Kintsugi is a Japanese art of repairing cracked pottery using lacquer mixed with gold dust or silver dust.  You can look it up if you want to.

The point of kintsugi, as far as I can tell, is that we can choose to flaunt our flaws, dress them up and call everyone over to celebrate the heck out of them.  I can't find any evidence that Emenem thinks of his art as a relative of kintsugi.  When I get to see Emenem, I'm going to point out to him that his art reminds me of kintsugi pottery repair.