DAY 193
Amaranthus and Mynah Bird
맨드라미와 구관조
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"Why paint a common wildflower and a single bird with such care?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This painting by Gakutei holds amaranth and a mynah bird with delicate care. It was drawn in Japan, yet the heart that pours care into a common flower and bird reaches anyone. I see here a gaze that holds the common as precious. Amaranth is a flower that blooms even by the roadside, and the mynah is no rarity either. Yet the painter gazed long upon that commonness and carried over each leaf, each feather, with care. Preciousness lies not in the object but in the looking heart. Gaze long, just once, at what you brush past each day, and there too is grain and light.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Today, gaze long at one thing you pass each day without a thought, and study its grain.
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📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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