Piecing together liberation: kintsugi as transforming reflection

Sterling, Colette, author

Piecing together liberation: kintsugi as transforming reflection

dc.contributor.author	Sterling, Colette, author
dc.date.accessioned	2022-01-24T16:26:43Z
dc.date.available	2022-01-24T16:26:43Z
dc.date.issued	2021-11
dc.description	Colorado State University. College of Health and Human Sciences, Student Affairs in Higher Education program.	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	Healing and Liberation fit together like pieces in a cracked ceramic bowl repaired with Kintsugi. Kintsugi is a Japanese traditional art form, dating back to the 15th century, of repairing ceramic or glass objects with a type of Japanese lacquer called Urushi (漆), which is then covered in gold, silver, brass, or other powdered metals. If done properly, a piece repaired with Kintsugi can last hundreds of years. What started as a mission to repair a broken glass pitcher passed along by a deceased loved one has turned into a greater metaphor for my work in the field of Student Affairs in Higher Education. Seeking knowledge on Kintsugi, itself a dwindling art in Japan, has also reflected on how I heal through the trauma inflicted on my salient identities, my historicity, and informs my future in social justice in higher education. The lenses of wabi-sabi from Japanese Buddhism, Lama Rod Owens's (2020) radical dharma of love and rage, and hook's (1994) Love as the Practice of Freedom inform this mixture of healing and self-reflection in action. Embedded in my relationship to this art is also Walsh and Lopes's (2009) Ethics of Appropriation, which acts as a decentering of my whiteness while providing a framework to ethically engage with cultural knowledge that is not my own.	en_US
dc.format.extent	29 seconds (30 second pitch); 2 minutes 59 seconds (3 minute talk)
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dc.subject	kintsugi	en_US
dc.subject	wabi-sabi	en_US
dc.subject	liberation	en_US
dc.subject	student affairs	en_US
dc.subject	social justice praxis	en_US
dc.subject	trauma	en_US
dc.subject	healing	en_US
dc.title	Piecing together liberation: kintsugi as transforming reflection	en_US
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dc.type	MovingImage
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