The beauty of certain expressions in the Japanese language is that they positively transform some concepts that have a negative meaning for Western culture. For example, “kintsugi,” the Japanese practice of highlighting and embellishing fractures and increasing the value of a broken object. This technique involves repairing the object (for example, a broken vase in … Continue reading Tsundoku
Category: Literature
Seeing Calvino.
Illustrations of Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Seeing Calvino is an attempt by the artists Leighton Connor, Matt Kish and Joe Kuth to “see,” through the creation of illustrations responding to and exploring the ideas in the texts, the work of writer Italo Calvino. The tumblr began in April 2014 with illustrations of Calvino’s Invisible Cities. A new … Continue reading Seeing Calvino.


