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"What is the heart that seeks to hold the whole within a single view for?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This is a great work that renders, from a slanting gaze, the halls, courtyards, and even the trees of Changdeokgung and Changgyeonggung without omission. It held an entire palace within one frame so that later generations might know its original form. In this painting I see the devotion and responsibility of record-keeping. One who sees only the single building before him cannot know the order of the whole. The effort to survey everything from a high vantage is a heart that records the present accurately to pass it on to the future. One who paints the large picture cherishes in advance what will vanish.
🌱Apply It Today
When you are buried in a single task before you, step back for a moment and draw the whole picture in a single view.
