DAY 137
Chusa-Susik.deukgyek-Nanmaengcheob
추사 난맹첩(蘭盟帖) 중 묵란
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"What is meant by holding a lifetime's study within a few blades of orchid leaf?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This ink orchid by Kim Jeong-hui reveals the orchid's dignity with only a few spare blades. He held the painting of orchids to be a discipline of his whole life. I see here the long time it takes to arrive at simplicity. To draw a single leaf without excess looks easy, but that plainness comes only at the end of countless practice. To know what to take away is harder than to add. In the few final strokes that remain, all the strokes one has passed through are steeped. Emptiness is not idleness but the result of restraint long accumulated.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Before trying to add more, find one bit of excess in your present work that you can take away.
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📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
Deep cheonjamun study →
