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Podcast: The Lonely Palette
Episode: Ep. 69 - Yee Sookyung's "Translated Vase" (2011)
Description: “It is not about fixing or mending, but about celebrating the vulnerability of the object and ultimately myself.” - Yee Sookyung
Shattered porcelain is impossible to repair. As impossible as fully, and accurately, reconstructing the past. But who needs that pressure? What if, instead of tossing those shards in the dustbin of history, we acknowledged that the thing will never be what it once was? Maybe then we appreciate the beauty, and the human resilience, of what new things it could be, in the now.
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Music used:
Billy Joel, “You May Be...