Restoring broken dishes | part 3

  The task is to tightly combine the edges of the fault, drill a hole in each of them and drive a scrap (often of precious metal) there with such an inclination of the “legs” so that it stands firmly.

And then repeat these steps as many times as necessary. If the operation is successful, the item will be intact and will serve without leaks, despite the absence of any adhesive. This is very cool, but it takes a long time to learn, since it is a completely separate technique. I've done this a couple of times on a tree, and I still have a long way to go to master it.

The next point is China, and this, unfortunately, is not entirely mine. I admire their art from afar, as an ordinary consumer. I get a lot of Chinese utensils, including fake teapots that imitate hand-sculpting. This is a separate big topic, in my telegram channel there is an article with the hashtag #clay_havnina, it is just about that.

As for the rest, I play a little Go, hang out on Ali from time to time, know a few hieroglyphs and drink mostly Chinese tea, but this is where my contacts with China end.

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- What to drink besides pu-erh, saigan-dail and mate?

- What can I advise about tea? I can advise a couple of places in Moscow, where professionals will help you with your choice. This is not an advertisement, I just know the assortment, prices and the level of employees personally, so I'm not afraid to recommend. These are "Tea Affairs Workshop" in Armenian Lane and "Tea Height" on Pokrovka, the guys in these places will recommend tea based on your taste. And I also visit the Tea Workshop on Saturdays, where you can talk in person if you wish.

- Could you tell us more about it? Who are these people playing Chinese board games, and have you thought about trying to make a goban board or mahjong dice yourself?

- For me, people who play Go are divided into several groups. The first ones are those who banally chase fashion for dissimilarity: they listen to different music, go to special places, and they spend their time demonstratively for “not such” social activities.

The second group of Go lovers are people who are somehow touched by the culture of the Far East. Whether tea, ceramics, language learning, calligraphy ... One way or another, doing one of these things, one day you will try black and white stones. I belong to this group.

And there is a third group of go lovers, it includes people with completely different hobbies and backgrounds, who are united by one thing - disappointment in chess.

Obviously, with the development of technologies and all these computers, which deliberately beat chess players, the veil of special status and intellectuality fell from chess, it became clear that there is a limited number of options for the development of events that can be memorized (difficult, but real) and each time taxied to more or less predictable ending. And then the people discovered go, where the variability is higher and the optimism of the players in this regard is consistently high.

Regarding the idea of ​​making goban and stones myself, I can say the following - stones are still possible, I thought on this, but a board is essentially a piece of furniture. Kintsugi refers to furniture production in no way. That is, varnishing a finished goban and, for example, decorating it is one thing, but building it from scratch is another profession.

- In your profile on the social network, I found the expression "disinterested contemplation" and many photos of the same tree on different days. Tell us about your sense of time and philosophy of wabi-sabi, and also advise what to find yourself in, what to do with your hands and head?

“From the outside, I must look more enlightened than I really am. As for the sense of time, with my craft I am probably a happy exception in the sense that my day is not divided into clear slots: morning - work - evening, weekdays - weekends. This, on the one hand, allows me to meet the summer dawn at four in the morning, and then come back and sleep. Or go away to rest for a week, and then work on Sunday from the heart, not tormented by the thought that I was spending my last day off. On the other hand, in order to earn money by craft, you need to have "honest" discipline, because no one is standing over me, large volumes of work done is a product of my will.

Therefore, we can say that I constantly allow time to bite my ear and do not try to drown out the ticking of the clock in my head so as not to lose my tone.

Wabi-sabi is well written in Wikipedia. I have two illustrations of what is and what does not apply to this concept. First: in a large company we spontaneously celebrated a friend's birthday, and all the guys drank wine from the same glasses. One guest, to distinguish her glass from the rest, twisted a ribbon from a foil wine cap and wrapped it around the stem of her glass. For my taste it is wabi-sabi. Imperfect, modest, natural - and thus elegant. And as a second example, we can cite modern ceramists who, having hastily fashioned a crooked cup, instead of sending it to marriage, proudly call it wabi-sabi and put it up for sale.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes and making objects asymmetrical, everyone learns sometime. The sad thing is that people are increasingly inclined to cover up their lack of professionalism with beautiful words about the special aesthetics of manual labor.