Liturgy Collective A Conversation with Makoto Fujimura & David Kim | Beauty & Exile
Apr 18, 2024
Makoto Fujimura, a leading contemporary artist known for 'slow art' and healing through beauty, shares reflections on presence and recovery. He explores slowness as a way to process trauma and the kintsugi practice of valuing brokenness. They discuss art’s power to retrain attention, the unfinished nature of creative work, and how communities can behold and restore what is fragmented.
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Slowness Reconnects Perception And Health
- Modern life trains our brains to ignore richly detailed reality, making presence rare and survival-mode habitual.
- Makoto Fujimura asks viewers to sit 10 minutes with a painting so neurons overload categories and reconnect, restoring health and perception.
Turn Toward Pain Through Slow Creative Practice
- Turn toward trauma rather than escape by practicing metanoia: repent, turn, and face the pain slowly.
- Fujimura rebuilt his life after 9/11 by making studio work that had no market purpose but helped him process daily.
Kintsugi Reveals Value In Brokenness
- Kintsugi amplifies fractures instead of hiding them, making the mended object more valuable than the original.
- Urushi masters behold broken fragments for long periods before mending, seeing completeness before repair.
