DAY 342
Eight Landscape Scenes and Calligr — 작자 미상
Eight Landscape Scenes and Calligr 작자 미상 · 19th century · Wikimedia Commons Public Domain View source ↗

Eight Landscape Scenes and Calligr

산수팔경과 글씨
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING

"What did an old album placing painting and calligraphy together mean to say?"

📝ONGO's Reflection

This is a Chinese album of unknown hand, where eight landscapes and pieces of calligraphy are paired. The calligraphy assists what the painting shows, and the painting fills the mood the calligraphy could not finish. Seeing and reading complete each other in one place. In this harmony I see the path of expression. There are hearts not wholly held by a single mode. What the painting could not finish is carried by writing; what writing could not finish, by painting. When one is not bound to any one and uses several paths together, the meaning one would convey is at last made whole. When one path is blocked, carry it by another.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

When one mode does not convey your meaning in full, try adding another.

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