DAY 172
Kotori Ruishō
소조유초 (작은 새들의 도감)
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"What is the eye gained only by one who has looked closely at small things, one by one?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This Japanese album by Nanto is a compendium that gathers small birds and records them with precision. Birds so common and small that one passes them without thought were observed and copied carefully, one bird at a time. The attitude of looking earnestly at small things leads to deep knowing in any land. Here I see the care of observation. Anyone sees what is large, but the eye that recognizes the difference in small things opens only to one who has gazed long. The one who examines what seems trifling to the very end sees, in the end, the furthest.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Take one small thing you usually pass without notice, and look at it closely today.
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📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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