Broken Beauty
August 2019

Does Beauty have to be attached to something that is whole ?
something that is perfect ? 
something that is not broken ? 

Is something less beautiful if it is cracked ?
Is something not beautiful if it has parts missing ?

Things that are broken are unique
Things that are broken can be beautiful

Many things that are perfect are boring
and things that are boringly perfect can be copied

Why do we entertain often un-achievable sets of beauty rules ? 

Is it because society tells us this is how things are ? 
Is it because society conditions us to think in this way ?

The cracks and the imperfections have stories

They happened because of things that happened to them
They happened and these happenings make up their story
 
These stories are what makes them interesting
These stories are what makes them individual

No other crack will ever be the same
No other crack will ever have the same story to tell

Stories are what holds our interest
Stories are things that spark our imagination
Stories are what makes our lives colourful
Stories are things that give things meaning

Stories make life interesting
Stories make things unique

Stories are what casts us aside from other beings and other creatures

It is the stories of the cracks
and
it is the stories of the broken-ness ....
that make what has been made unique
that makes what has been made interesting


You will remember what has been made in terms of it's stories
You will remember it's broken-ness as something that is not perfect 
and
It is the stories of the broken-ness that will remain with us even when what has been made is no longer here

BUT .... 

This brokeness is what has made this thing beautiful 
and
it is this beauty in broken-ness that is just as important as the thing that was created itself.


​The cracks and the imperfections are beautiful 

My works are beautiful

My works are broken