Artist’s Statement
My work “Wabi-Cyber-Sabi” explores the meeting of art and science through the language of repair. Drawing from the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi‑Sabi and the traditions of Kintsugi (golden repair) and Gintsugi (silver repair), a broken motherboard is reimagined as the site of renewal. By integrating fused glass, golden mica inclusions, and silver solder with the engineered geometries of computer hardware, a hybrid artwork emerges that honors both organic imperfection and cybernetic precision.
Science enters the work through the materials themselves and the systems they once powered. Circuitry, data pathways, and soldered joints are metaphors for connection and memory. The Kintsugi repair of a broken motherboard is a meditation on fragility and resilience: a technological organism restored through artistic intervention.
As artificial intelligence increasingly engages society, relationships between humans and machines fracture through misalignment, distortion, or the psychological strain caused when AI mirrors us too eagerly. My work treats these breaks as opportunities for reflection. The golden seams of Kintsugi and the silver solder of Gintsugi are metaphors for mending the cyber‑human bond, suggesting that our tools require technical refinement and ethical alignment.
Glass fusing and copper foil soldering techniques allow me to merge aesthetic intuition with scientific process. Heat, conductivity, and material stress all play active roles in shaping the final form. The golden mica fragments refract light like micro‑landscapes, while the motherboard’s architecture provides a structural logic that guides the composition.
By combining Wabi-Sabi repair arts with computer hardware, I aim to reveal the beauty within the decay of computer systems and the possibility of a more humane technological future. The work invites viewers to consider that our digital systems, like ourselves, can break, adapt, and be repaired with intention, humility, and imagination.
Karmatetra 
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