Makoto Fujimura on How What's Broken Becomes Beautiful

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🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Makoto Fujimura is a painter and the author of several books on the intersection of faith, culture, and the arts. Most recently he’s published Art and Faith: A Theology of Making. In this episode, Mako describes his calling as an artist and how living three blocks from the World Trade Center transformed his painting. He also describes his work in kintsugi – the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics by pouring gold between the shattered pieces. The medium itself is a vision of grace: taking something that appears ruined and making it more beautiful and more valuable than the original. It’s a conversation about vocation, creativity, the abundance of God’s love, and the importance of culture making as vision of the new creation. Produced by Mike Cosper Edited by Mark Owens Music by Dan Phelps Theme Song “Eden Was a Garden” by Roman Candle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you in part by The Apologetics Guy Show, the podcast that helps you find clear answers to tough questions about Christianity.
0:11.1	Learn to explain your faith with courage and compassion.
0:14.5	Join Moody Bible Institute professor Dr. Mikhail del Rosario at Apologeticsky.com.
0:22.0	Are you at your studio today?
0:25.2	Or do you, what does work like for you?
0:27.1	Do you have a separate studio from your place?
0:29.1	Yeah, so, yeah, so I have two studios, one here and one in Pasadena.
0:33.7	One in Pasadena is what I share with my fellows.
0:37.6	And obviously, I haven't been able to get to Pasadena since March.
0:43.4	So my step here, I have a three-acre farm in Princeton, and I have a whole barn where I turned it into a studio.
0:54.6	And we're thinking about expanding this, but that's where I am today.
0:59.0	Yeah, no horses there, right?
1:00.9	No horses.
1:02.2	The horses vacated with their, you know, previous tenants here and went to Vermont.
1:10.2	But I did ask their permission to turn this into a studio
1:13.6	gave them carrots a bribe
1:16.6	There's a pine wall blithe on a holland he seems to have the whole morning out right in front of him
1:24.6	and everything he sings from the branch that he's sitting on it seems to hush the leaves and the colors all around now first he sings and then he goes and what it means it's hard to know From Christianity Today, you're listening to Cultivated, Conversations about faith and work.
1:53.9	I'm Mike Cosper, and on today's show I'm talking to my friend Makoto Fujimura about his life as a painter.
2:00.0	How 9-11 transformed his work, and how an ancient
2:02.8	Japanese art form became kind of a controlling metaphor for his understanding of grace and healing.
2:08.6	Stay with us.
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