DAY 199
Ito Jakuchu 001
노송백봉도(늙은 소나무 위 흰 봉황)
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"What is the meaning of building up countless layers of color to paint a single phoenix?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This is a Japanese painting by Ito Jakuchu, in which a white phoenix has settled on an old pine. For one surface Jakuchu repeated his brush countless times, building up care down to a single feather. My heart goes to this dogged devotion. A splendid phoenix does not come forth in a single moment. Countless unseen touches pile up, layer upon layer, and only then is one bird complete. When the heart that wants to achieve at one stroke is let go, the true thing is completed.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Do not be impatient to achieve at a single stroke; build up, one layer at a time, the unseen labor that goes on steadily.
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📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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