DAY 84
Korea Work 17
이갑전로도 (게 두 마리와 갈대)
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"How can the wish for another's success be held within a single painting?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This painting by Kim Hong-do holds two crabs biting at reeds. The carrying of reeds, by its sound, suggests passing the examination and rising to office. The hard shell of the crab means the foremost, the first rank. A whole painting becomes a blessing for someone's advancement. Here I see the tenderness of how people of old passed their hearts along. To pray for fortune by likening it to objects, rather than saying it outright, is a quiet consideration for the one who receives it.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
For a close one's undertaking, offer one heartfelt word of encouragement instead of a grand speech.
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📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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