The Kintsugi is the Japanese technique through which broken ceramic pieces are given a new life. by rebuilding them and join them again with resin varnish, dusted with gold or other precious metals. Then, it is considered that the object now has a new value and a renewed resistance, thanks to its scars.
For the Chilean artist and mosaic therapist, Rosario Lirathis practice went from being a simple metaphor to becoming a true process of personal healing in your life, Well, for some time now, teaching and creating pieces from the mosaic technique helped her overcome a personal crisis.
“The technique in which I specialize the most and on which I have based my work is mosaic, but The mosaic has led me to all kinds of line, I can make classic mosaic, square type, mosaic to decorate walls and also applied on glass, in the form of the well-known luminaries or Turkish lamps”, he commented for this newspaper from Chile, via Zoom. “The base of the mosaic is make a collage with any element that one can have on hand, it can be glass, shells, stones, tiles, broken vessels, etcetera,” he explained.
Since she was little, Lira was linked to personal therapy and other wellness practices such as mindfulness thanks to the fact that her mother, a psychologist by profession, shared these meetings and sessions with her and her sister in which other professionals in the area participated. Later, after graduating from Early Childhood Education, the artist was able to perceive how, through drawings or strokes, minors could also express certain situations that surrounded them. Something similar perceived later among her son’s classmates, now 19, who, says Lira, also “kept a lot of things” which were probably not easy to count, as have an eating disorder.
but it would be going through a critical situation in her life which prompted her to definitively link herself with art therapy and its different techniques and decide share them with others who also need a method to heal. “The one that resonated with me the most was the mosaic, besides that I was seeing the analogy that I made of different situations of my life with this artistic work”.
“We all have something, we all carry something in our life, We have gone through a situation or more than one situation in many cases, which fragment us into many pieces, but in the end it depends on each one what we do with it. We are responsible, we are not a result but rather we are producers of our life”.
Creativity as the path of healing
Creation is part of his day to day. “Like every artist, I always carry my sketchbook everywhere.”, he recounts. “And I try, at least once a week, to start a new project”. Also, like most artists, he then sells his work.
That motivation of learn a new skill and make a product that they can then sell summons several women to the courses frequently offered by the artist. “EITHER They come because they want to do a beautiful job to give to their mother and they leave happy with what they have done.”.
However, there are two works by Lira that are not for sale and that she considers to represent her. “One is a bust made with a 3D technique, a plumafon cube is grabbed and shaped into a sculpture (a torso) that is then sealed in cement and the mosaic is then worked on that cement (a technique that he also teaches). “, Explain. “I guess it’s my warrior woman armor.”
The other, says Lira, is an ‘X-ray’ of a butterfly and is also the logo of his workshop and his profile on Instagram. “It is a butterfly that is reborn from black and white and is made of colored fragments because not all the fragments of our lives come from terrible thingsbut it is the day to day”.
Lira also maintains today a close link with Ecuadora country that he visited after the pandemic as a tourist, but where he also He found a niche for teaching his art and taking steps to cure, little by little, social problems. “I’m not going to change the world, I don’t intend to and I don’t think I have the power to do it, but I do believe unity is possible.”
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Source: Eluniverso
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