Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/06/repairing-a-decaying-basketbal.html
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Is the lack of sound control on this video intentional?
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I halfway expected the cracks to be filled with Ramen and sanded.
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My city practices the art of kintsugi on our streets when they fill the cracks with tar.
Or is that just common road maintenance? Seems like when you do something very basic then it’s rather mundane, but add some yellow pigment and social media influencers and you’ve elevated it to art.
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There are people who find art in the mundane, and there are probably Flickr collections tagged something like “asphalt art” or “road repair reflections” or something like that. It’s art, but not kintsugi.
Kintsugi is literally “gold repair” - using gold to fix the cracks in pottery and ceramics, to highlight the break and reflect on finding beauty in the broken and repaired.
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What are they filling the cracks with, an epoxy with a golden pigment? Fascinating form of art. Thanks for sharing!
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It’s usually done with gold powder, but that much would be profoundly expensive.
ETA: Here’s a good example of what it normally looks like:
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What a great idea! It looks so much nicer than when they try to “hide” the repairs by using the darker, shiny black tar substance.
And what a cool art form! Let’s celebrate our recovery from damage instead of trying to pretend it didn’t happen.
Really lovely.
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