Russian photographer and graphic designer Katerina Droke created a photoproject "Kintsugi: Beauty in imperfection", which shows that combines the body changes after childbirth and the Japanese art of the XV century.
Kintsygi, or kintsugi, that translated from Japanese means "Golden Patch" is the Japanese art of the restoration of ceramic products with a varnish from a lacquer juice (Urusi) mixed with gold, silver or platinum powder. It originated in the XV century.
According to one version, the Japanese segun Asicaga Esiimas sent to the restoration of the favorite tea bowl of Chinese masters, but they completed gross work, covering fragments with iron scrapers. Segun ordered Japanese masters to come up with a more elegant way to save a cup, and they succeeded.
Since then, Kintsigi began to reflect the philosophy of value and making disadvantages and flaws, "breakdowns and cracks" as an integral part of the personality history. Inspired by the work of Japanese masters, Katerina Droke captured a postpartum body with gold paint applied to stretching. Golden stripes proudly sparkle on the stomach, hips, chest.
"Any failure is an experience, it is impossible to just throw it out of my story, but you can treat it with gratitude, because obstacles make us stronger, and our entire experience makes us as we are," which the creator of the photo project believes, whose premiere She trusted Nan.
In the modern world, we are confronted with the incredible number of sheming.
"We are looking at ideal women with covers and sleek men with billboards. In our subconscious, we default are bad - with uneven skin, with cellulite, stretch marks, acne, redness, venous nets and other things. Only we completely forgot that it was normal, "Katerina said.
First of all, everything that happens to our body is our way and our experience.
"Our failures are in every wrinkle, and our joys can affect stretch marks after the birth of a new life. I would like to be addressed to the philosophy of Kintsugi in the perception of my and someone else's body. I want people to have learned to see beauty in imperfection, learned to appreciate the lived experience and carefully treated their and someone else's way, even if he reflected on the body "imperfection," - described the essence of his project.
In the modern world, people increasingly take their body as it is, and get rid of stereotypes regarding appearance. Stretching and other body changes cease to be perceived as disadvantages. Celebrities are divided by their honest photos after childbirth, and brands choosing models with stretch marks take away the audience from Victoria's Secret. And it pleases!
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