“Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with golden lacquer. It teaches us to embrace damage and flaws.” — ManGill. For most of my adult life I have helped repair the sick. Many had their lives suddenly shattered and altered forever. It was a job at which I was quite good. Recently, the… Read more

“It’s the extension of the arm, essentially your hand…” Roger Federer Tennis was originally played with solid wooden bats. Strangely, it was the renaissance of modern surgery that lead to the stringing of these bats, transforming them into racquets. General anaesthesia was pioneered across the world from the mid 1800s. There was a boom in… Read more

““Allegiances” DW1 I am frankly suspicious of the term marker. In my world you make marks with pens (fountain preferably) or brushes. Occasionally a pencil might be used early in a project. The Copic marker was born in Japan, developed in a Tokyo art store called Izumiya. The business was established in 1919, but really… Read more