DAY 88
Korean.Folk.Village-Minsokchon-04-alt
민화 호랑이
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"What is the power of the heart that turns a fearsome thing into something familiar?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
The tiger in the folk painting kept at the village is somehow comical and endearing rather than fierce. The people of Joseon deliberately painted the most fearsome of beasts to look absurd. Here I see the wisdom of handling fear. People took the tiger as a guardian spirit that wards off misfortune and brought it into the home. Instead of pushing the fearsome thing far away, they painted it familiar and kept it close. Even fear, depending on how we set our minds, can be turned into a force that protects us.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Rather than blindly avoiding what you fear, face it head-on and seek a way to interpret it differently.
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📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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