DAY 58
Kim Hong-do, Indian Prophet
낯선 나라의 선인
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"What was the curiosity that set a strange figure from afar onto the canvas?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This is an ink painting in which Danwon Kim Hong-do drew a sage-like figure come from a distant land. Unlike the familiar figures of genre scenes, the unfamiliar dress and air make the scene fresh. I read, here, a gaze that seeks to look beyond one's own world. To break from what one always painted and lift a never-before-seen subject onto the brush tip requires both curiosity and courage. The familiar is comfortable, but the new makes a person grow. An attitude of quietly looking into the strange, rather than flinching before it, widens one's world.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
When you meet something strange beyond the familiar border, do not push it away; look into it once.
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📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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