DAY 185
Hatsuboku landscape by Sesso (British Museum)
발묵 산수도(潑墨山水圖)
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"What does a painting whose forms were made by flinging ink teach?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This splashed-ink landscape shaped mountain and mist by letting ink bleed and scatter. It came from the Japanese ink-painting tradition, yet the sight of chance and skill blended together is of interest to anyone. I see here a balance of control and surrender. The painter throws the ink but cannot decide every direction it will spread. He takes the accidentally bled mark and reads it as a mountain. Human affairs are like this. When we do not erase as failure the places that did not go to plan but embrace them as a new form, an unexpected landscape is born.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
When something departs from your plan, before moving to erase it, first look for what can be saved there.
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📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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