DAY 40
Korea Work 2 — 작자 미상
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Korea Work 2

남지기로회도 (동아대 소장본)
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING

"By what do I remember the gatherings with people I have shared long years with?"

📝ONGO's Reflection

This is a scene of an elders' assembly, aged officials seated together by a pond in the south. Yi Gi-ryong added a passage of writing and left that day's gathering as a painting. In it I read a heart that deliberately fastened onto canvas a bond that scatters all too easily. Those who have crossed a season of life together will one day part, each to his own road. And so they wished to keep that single day of being together as a record. The gathering ends, but the heart that held the place dear remains, having become a painting.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If you have a meeting with an old friend, do not let it slip lightly by; engrave the occasion upon your heart.

📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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