Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer combined with precious metals. The intention of this method is to highlight the beauty of brokenness and repair, identifying both as important aspects of the history of the object, rather than flaws to hide or disguise. The significance of kintsugi has roots in wabi-sabi, the Japanese philosophy of radical acceptance of the inherent nature of imperfection in life. With kintsugi, by emphasizing the cracks in the repair process, there is a valuing of the wear of an object and a recognition that being broken is simply a part of its story, rather than its end.

Kintsugi as metaphor has been a touchstone in Onyx’s work with folks impacted by chronic illness, disability, mental illness, trauma, and oppression. As a mixed-race Japanese American, Onyx holds these concepts as foundational to the perspective they bring to their practice. Asher's lived experience as someone whose body exists at the intersection of trauma, chronic illness and queerness also deeply resonates with the concept of "emphasizing [and tending to] the cracks in the repair process." That being said, Asher operates from a space of immense privilege as a white person and they bring to this collective an ongoing practice of interrogation into the way internalized white supremacy permeates their clinical and business decisions.

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