Li Jian - Landscape (Leaf 5)
"Why does a single leaf, among many, become a whole landscape on its own?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This is the fifth leaf of a landscape album the Qing painter Li Jian made in 1789. It is one sheet among many, yet by that one sheet alone, mountain and water form a complete world. The making of a single album leaf, a part and at once a whole, is a principle that carries anywhere. Here I see the completeness of a part. To be one fragment of the whole does not mean it was painted carelessly. Each single leaf must be complete in itself, that gathered together they may form a larger completion. The attitude of being whole even in a small place upholds, in the end, the great.
🌱Apply It Today
However small the task, finish it carefully to the end, so that by itself alone it becomes complete.
