Here is another small project I'm working on. I found various pieces of an old Tootsietoy Car behind the radiator of our very old house when I was doing some cleaning last year. It was in such crummy shape, I was going to chuck it, but for some reason I didn't.
Then I read about the Japanese Art of repairing broken things, Kintsugi. Traditionally, it applies to pottery, but philosophically, it could apply to anything which cannot be brought back to perfection, but which is still a beloved object. The purpose of Kintsugi is not to restore the object to its original, pristine state, but to repair it showing the cracks and seams and all, to show it's "life journey" as it were.
So I'm going to take the existing pieces and try to patch them together as best I can, and see what I come up with. I might try to polish up the surface, but then again, maybe not. I'll send along the results. And maybe somebody can identify the car model? I'm thinking somewhere in the 1930s, but I don't know my classic cars.
Rob C
USA
It's a model of a 1934 Chrysler Airflow
ReplyDeleteHey, thanks very much, I would have never figured that out!
DeleteYou know you have to fill the cracks & gaps with 22ct gold Rob?!!!
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DeleteThats a cool idea Rob, glad you saved it. A lot of my Spacex toys fall into the Kintsugi category, given my ham-fisted repairs!
ReplyDeleteYes, this was one of those weird things that I truly stumbled over, and thought "What the heck am I going to do with this thing?" But then I realized it was part of the history of this very old house I live in (which is supposed to be haunted by the way, and I believe it!), and I figured better to be safe than sorry - what if this neat toy belonged to one of the ghosts? So I will carefully patch it together and see what happens afterwards!
DeleteMy Missus informs me that Japanese patchers use gold and other precious stuff to bring small ruins back to life.
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