PRESENTING CUPID AT EMKP CONFERENCE, WELLCOME COLLECTION, LONDON_copy

However, mending and repair are not simply practical responses to entropy and decay – the utilitarian prolonging of material lives – they are deliberate acts of choice, embedded in social practice and understanding. They are also creative, joyous interventions that make anew rather than just re-making the old, adding new patina, texture and character. Equally important to mending is the decision not to mend, and the initiation of a new material pathway of change.

However, mending and repair are not simply practical responses to entropy and decay – the utilitarian prolonging of material lives – they are deliberate acts of choice, embedded in social practice and understanding. They are also creative, joyous interventions that make anew rather than just re-making the old, adding new patina, texture and character. Equally important to mending is the decision not to mend, and the initiation of a new material pathway of change.

However, mending and repair are not simply practical responses to entropy and decay – the utilitarian prolonging of material lives – they are deliberate acts of choice, embedded in social practice and understanding. They are also creative, joyous interventions that make anew rather than just re-making the old, adding new patina, texture and character. Equally important to mending is the decision not to mend, and the initiation of a new material pathway of change.