DAY 136
Chaekgeori, Late nineteenth-century, Ten-panel screen, Private Collection
책거리 (열 폭 병풍)
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"Toward what kind of life is the scenery surrounding me leading me?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
A ten-panel screen is filled with books and writing implements, antiques and flowering plants, neatly stacked. The chaekgeori is a painting that spreads across the frame a household's wish that valued study and learning. In this screen I read the belief that surroundings shape a person. A child raised always surrounded by books will naturally come to keep books near. What we keep beside us quietly leads what we become. People first hung the life they wished for upon the wall, and walked toward it.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
First call to mind the self you wish to become, and prepare beside you, in advance, the surroundings that suit it.
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📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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