Borders of Nothingness – On the Mend marked a turning point in Lansink’s international practice, receiving the Grand Prize of the Hariban Award in 2019 - resulting in a two-week residency in Kyoto and the production of ten unique collotype prints by Master Printer Osamu Yamamoto at Benrido Atelier, one of the last ateliers in the world still working with this process, dating from 1856.

The work began in absence. Lansink photographed landscapes and women whose presence was already fading — made during the years her daughter had suspended contact with her. When contact was slowly restored, she returned to those images, tore them apart, and mended the breaks with 23-karat gold leaf, following the philosophy of kintsugi: repairing what is broken not to conceal the damage, but to honour it. The series is an ode to resilience. To bonds that become stronger precisely because they were once broken.