DAY 363
Confederate Roses and White Herons by Xiao Zeng, Ming dynasty
부용과 백로 (소증)
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"What accord does a white heron beside the rose mallow reveal?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This is a painting of rose mallow and white herons on silk by the Ming-dynasty Chinese painter Xiao Zeng. Beside the red-blooming mallow, a heron stands white and still. In this contrast I see the subtlety of accord. The lavish mallow and the plain heron differ, yet being together, each one's light grows clearer. When only like gathers with like, nothing stands out. Only when something different is at one's side does each one's grain come alive. Accord is not the becoming of sameness but the way difference makes each shine.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Rather than guarding against one unlike you, see them as a pair who can make each other shine.
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📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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