Borders of Nothingness - On the Mend is about bridging the old with the new, re-connecting the global and local, and, on the personal note, about the revival of the intimate mother-daughter relationship. In 2019, this series was awarded the inter-nationally prestigious Hariban Award from the Japanese Benrido Atelier, which remains to be one of the very last ateliers in the world that still uses the old printing technology of Collotype. Collotype is a printing process back from 1856 that allows for exceptional depth and degree of detail in the image. In addition to a two-week residency in Kyoto, part of this prize is the execution of the artist’s prints by Master printer Osamu Yamamoto of Benrido Atelier. Thanks to the 40 years of experience of this ‘print master’, Lansink’s contemporary images of human (re-)connection are linked to unique old-school reproductions of unprecedented quality. The series as such is an ode to the resilience of the human connection despite what might occur in time. Whilst being in the artist residence in Japan, Lansink used her camera to cope with the suspended contact with her daughter back home. After some years, when it got to be slowly restored, Lansink looked back at those images, ripped them apart and rearran-ged them in collages of new memories. These collages she reworked with gold leaf following the philosophy of Kintsugi, a Japanese art form in which broken ceramic pieces are reconnected together with the use of gold. Not to hide the ‘scars’, but to symbolize the power of healing. EDITIONS Collages: 3/2AP Collotypes: 5/0AP prepared by Margaret Lansink, 2/0AP master printer Osama Yamamoto