DAY 76
Kim Jeong hui — Yi Han-cheol
Kim Jeong hui Yi Han-cheol · Unknown date · Wikimedia Commons Public Domain View source ↗

Kim Jeong hui

김정희 초상
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING

"What trace remains on the face of one who has honed a single path for a lifetime?"

📝ONGO's Reflection

This is Yi Han-cheol's portrait of Chusa Kim Jeong-hui. Chusa honed the single path of calligraphy for a lifetime and at last achieved a script that was his own. In that face, instead of brilliance, there is a firmness shaped by long discipline. In this portrait I see the depth of one who dug into a single field to the very end. Talent opens the beginning, but what carries it to completion is decades of repetition. The face of one who has dug a single well deep becomes, in itself, a piece of writing.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

Rather than peering down many paths, dig a little deeper into the one path you are already on.

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