Kintsukoroi

My beautiful sister has battled depression for quite a while. It's a hard battle because it's one that doesn't really ever end. However, she wrote a beautiful blog post about how even broken things are beautiful. And I think that's the most wonderful description of what it means to be human... we all have different cracks, but we're still here, and we've put ourselves back together, and I think that makes us even better than we were before.

I was honored to take photos to illustrate her thoughts. She drew inspiration from a Japanese art called "kintsukoroi", meaning golden repair. They take a piece of broken pottery and repair them using a golden lacquer. Something that was once broken is not even more beautiful. Different, but still whole. Broken, but somehow fixed.