Kintsugi, 2020

A Champagne Arcade Production
Featuring: Paulo Castillo, Samantha Kelly, Napoleon Do

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of rebuilding broken pottery using poisonous sap as an adhesive and gold in order to highlight its imperfections. Through the process of repairing broken things, we can create something more desirable, beautiful and unique. Each crack tells a story like the lines on our palms. How we choose to react when our lives break apart and shatter, the feeling of loss, and the conversations that we have with ourselves is the work featured in Kintsugi. It's a terraforming of the mind, saving us from ourselves.

Paulo Castillo is a storyteller who currently focuses on documenting glimpses of the atypical through photography. His zine titled Champagne Arcade started out as a solo retrospective project that soon turned into a platform for collaboration. It’s a slice of life, showcasing the vitality of the artists involved. An extension of his reality. 

Napoleon Do uses his lens to create narratives that situate people within their environments and capture the interactions or contrasts between the two-context and people. Napoleon has always lived in the Pacific Northwest and began shooting 35mm film in 2013.

Samantha Kelly is a photographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her work explores the emotional elements of human nature and the subconscious symbolism of light, color and human figures.