Gold Series

Gold. In Japanese culture gold is poured in the cracks of broken pottery “golden joinery,” Kintsugi, or Kintsukuroi, is the centuries-old Japanese art of fixing broken pottery. The idea is that when the items become broken and the gold is poured in, the item becomes more beautiful. We are the same. Through our suffering, we pour metaphorical gold into the broken parts of ourselves each time we rise up from our suffering. Therefore fortifying ourselves more and more. Amrta wants to paint everything gold as a reminder that the gold is what we have been all along. Perfect gold. Never broken, but forever breaking to get back to our purest and most perfect state. Amrta carves into these pieces modern (and sometimes crass) statements to keep them light and humorous, but also to merge the ancient with the current, the highbrow with the lowbrow. Once again showing we are all the same deep down and we might as well have a laugh along the way.