Throughout the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh), earthenware is an ancient icon for humanity. From Edenic dust and dirt to the national homelessness of Judah’s exile in Babylon, ceramics are a curious yet central motif, representing humankind. In the book of Jeremiah, the eighteenth chapter records humanity being subject to the Ancient of Days just as clay is to a potter.
Similarly, the five-hundred-year-old ceramic art of kintsugi mends broken earthenware with gold. This approach treats breakage as part of an object’s valuable history, rather than concealing it. Golden lacquer fills cracks to join broken pieces together, dignifying a vessel’s fragility. Here, an ancient aesthetic elevates a vessel’s wear and tear by tracing a its history with one of earth’s costliest precious metals. The result is a time-honored brilliance shining forth a vessel’s redemptive history in a manner that supersede
Who Donna is and how she helps others discover journey unlike any other is exactly about this concept.
“Thus says the Ancient of Days: ‘Stand at the crossroads and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls…'”