DAY 111
Korean folding screen, ink and color paintings of lotus, fish and birds, 19th century, Cho
연화어조도 병풍
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"What is the meaning of gathering lotus, fish, and birds onto a single folding screen?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This is a painting where lotus, fish, and birds are brought into harmony on one screen. The lotus, which blooms from mud yet is not soiled, has from old times been a symbol of a clear heart. Beneath it fish swim, and above it birds settle. I feel that this picture is the sight of different lives each living by their own grain in one place. The lotus does not blame the mud; it blooms its flower from there. Whatever the ground I stand on, what I will bloom into there is, in the end, mine to decide.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Before blaming the place you stand in, decide with your own hand what you will bloom into right there.
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📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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