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Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery. The lacquer used to join the broken pieces is mixed or dusted with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, and thus the repair becomes part of the beauty of the piece.

Many people are feeling that our world is breaking under the forces of climate change, the current pandemic, and the many political, economic and social upheavals that we are all experiencing. In spite of everything there is still beauty and strength among and around us. We cannot turn the clock back, but we can mend our worlds and love them all the more for the beauty of that mending.

Amanda Amend captures the mystery behind the everyday in luminous watercolor. Often described as atmospheric and ethereal, the subtle qualities of her work are balanced by a powerful, disciplined use of color, values, and compositional choices that reflect unique perspectives. The artist recently discovered her passion for watercolor, and she is largely self-taught. Her educational background is in music and linguistics rather than in studio arts, however those disciplines have given her the analytical and practice-oriented frameworks from which to master watercolor's difficult techniques. Further, the structures of language and music provide a conceptual basis for understanding visual composition, and these careers have taken her...