Kachozu by Soki Yamaguchi
"What did the old tradition of painting flowers and birds together mean to convey?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This is a bird-and-flower painting by the Ryukyu painter Yamaguchi Soki. The bird-and-flower genre, painting flowers and birds together, is a subject long carried on in East Asia, where the staying flower and the alighting bird meet on one surface. What is rooted in one place and what comes and goes freely set each other off. In this pairing I see harmony. With only flowers it is desolate; with only birds there is nowhere to rest. When the staying and the wandering, two different natures, meet, the surface at last comes alive. Life grows rich because someone of a different grain is beside me.
🌱Apply It Today
Rather than shying from a person of a nature different from yours, see them as the pair that brings you both alive.
