Kintsugi Wabi Sabi Workshop with Tori at Groundfloor club Oakland

Kintsugi is the practice of repairing broken objects, highlighting the cracks with gold. Bringing forward the narrative, and serving to honor impermanence. Kintsugi is used as an analogy for people to practice resilience. Transform, and recover from past experiences. It can serve as an analogy for the duality of life, life’s tendency to both be incredibly beautiful and challenging at the same time.

Wabi Sabi, is the ancient Japanese art philosophy, of finding value in imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness. It invites a new perspective drawing on ancient Zen truth’s like non- attachment, impermanence, and awareness. As well as finding beauty in the insignificant, and unconventional, finding value in impermanence. And drawing inspiration from the incomplete.

In this intimate workshop, we have tea and introductions, and the we will break and restore your own teacup, provided by the workshop using modern Kintsugi techniques. We’ll learn the centuries old Japanese art philosophy Wabi Sabi, And reflect on thought provoking questions.

Please bring clothes you don't mind getting dirty, and your open minds, we look forward to meeting you.

This event is hosted by Tori @torimakespots on Instagram, a ceramicist, and teacher of many years. She Loves Kintsugi, and Wabi Sabi, for their parallels to everyday life, and the analogy they draw to self healing, transformation, and resiliency.

Note: Please be aware if you are bringing your own piece of pottery to repair, some un glazed clay bodies can be difficult to work with due to the textured surface.

IG: https://www.instagram.com/torimakespots/

Website: https://stonegoldcrafts.com/

Host or Publisher Ryley Gaulocher