DAY 124
Bookshelf (Chaekgado), 19th century, Joseon dynasty, MFAB .824a-d (1 of 4)
책가도 (책꽂이 그림)
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"Am I living as a bookshelf being filled, rather than one left empty?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This bookshelf painting renders shelves packed densely with books. Each book spine in its neat row shows the grain of learning a household has gathered. A bookshelf is a place where a person's yesterday and today are layered, one upon another. In this painting I see the virtue of accumulation. As one book is laid upon another, learning does not rise in a single morning but gathers slowly. Even a shelf that looks empty now, filled one book a day, becomes before long the depth of a person.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Consider that with one thing newly learned today, you have filled one shelf in the bookcase of your heart.
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📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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