DAY 33
Gangsanmujindo — Yi Inmun
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Gangsanmujindo

강산무진도(江山無盡圖)
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING

"What was in the heart that tried to hold endless ranges of mountains and rivers within a single scroll?"

📝ONGO's Reflection

Unrolled, the river and mountains flow on without pause. Yi In-mun deliberately drew, in one long stretch, a landscape no single field of vision could contain. I see in this painting an unwillingness to fix an ending. When people begin a task, they sketch its conclusion first, but mountains and rivers make no promise about where they ought to break off. Like a road where rounding one bend reveals another, a life too is filled not by its destination but by its going on. That we do not know the end is no reason to stop.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If a task is hard to bring to a close, walk on looking not at the end but only at the next bend.

📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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