Redefining Loss

The Japanese art of kintsugi centers around repairing, repurposing, and embracing a broken or imperfect object, finding new meaning in the process. The pandemic has challenged us in many ways, be it with our relationships, personal values, day-to-day lives, or anything else. Often, we think of these changes as losses, but sometimes, they could also be opportunities to reevaluate ourselves and grow in a direction we’ve previously never considered. Yet, much of school assignments remain the same as “what they were like before” and are as impersonal as ever, not acknowledging the psychical shifts experienced by students and teachers alike. This drawing-and-collage assignment is an opportunity to reflect on your personal feelings and acknowledge that things aren’t “what they were like before”, while also trying to find a new purpose in what was loss.

Steps (with an example below)

Bonus step: Tear up the collage and create another collage!

To submit: Take a picture of your collage (and if you’re comfortable, your paragraph) and email it to your teacher!

Example by a classmate of mine:

In my collage, I turned the things that I’ve lost into a tree. During the pandemic, the amount of in-person social interactions I have has been greatly reduced. I feel like I’ve drifted apart from some friendships and have changed a lot of my plans. Before the pandemic, I also felt like I was slowly gaining social skills and self-esteem through in-person interactions and basically putting myself out there more. The pandemic, I feel, has set me back, in terms of my own personal development. As time goes forward, I hope to plant seeds that will help me grow and blossom to the person I want to be after the hardships I’ve experienced due to the pandemic.

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