Woven photographs. 

Reframing the past, rebuilding the broken - Kintsukuroi for the soul. 

Kintsukuroi - or "golden repair" is the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics, 

the idea being that the lovingly repaired object gains beauty in the fix. 

Repairing and reinventing the idea of beauty

The world is broken, breaking more and more every day, yet always on the mend. 

Observing what is right here right now, I sit and stay in the present brokenness, 

and then I begin to refashion what is from what is no longer. 

Some memories recombine beautifully to make what used to be better than before - kintsukuroi. 

Others remain foggy, fragmented, outdated notions. Things that are best left behind

or even better - forgiven and accepted as they are now - in pieces. 

Staci Strauss 

2023