Kintsugi-inspired

Presenting my latest creation - inspired by kintsugi and the journey of personal growth and healing.

A softly felted bowl—its surface warm, shaped slowly by hand, holding the quiet evidence of time and touch.

Along its form, there isn’t just one kind of healing. Some of it has happened naturally. The wool has gently fused together in places, almost invisibly—fibers joining and connecting, through warmth, and patience. These are the kinds of healing we don’t force: the slow easing of pain with time, the way the body and heart instinctively try to mend themselves. It’s subtle, embedded into the vessel itself, part of its structure now.

But then there are the other places—the ones that didn’t close on their own. Those are assisted with golden stitching. Not accidental, not passive, but chosen. Each golden thread deliberately stitched, visible, unhidden. The kind of healing that are echoed in one of my favourite songs - Let Love In by Goo Goo Dolls—the kind that asks something of you. The kind that says: stay open, even when every instinct is to close. Because letting love in again isn’t automatic. It’s a conscious, often difficult decision.

So the bowl holds both truths at once:

The quiet, natural repair—the healing that happens in the background, without effort, reminding you that you are built to recover.

The golden stitches—the intentional acts of courage, where you choose to face the break, to tend to it, and to be seen in it.

Together, they tell a fuller story of wellbeing.
Not all healing is soft.
Not all of it is chosen.
But the most transformative moments often are.

And just like the bowl, you don’t have to hide either version.

The unseen mending gives you strength.
The visible gold gives you voice.