DAY 187
Hanging Scroll (pair of pheasants)
마루야마 오쿄 한 쌍의 꿩 (족자)
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"What does a pair of birds drawn side by side resemble?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This is a hanging scroll in which the Japanese painter Maruyama Okyo drew a pair of pheasants with precision. The lifelike depiction, as if from close observation of the living birds, is striking. In the two standing side by side I see the figure of being together. A pair is not identical. In differing postures they keep each other's side and form a single surface. To be together is not to look at the same place but to be at one another's side. The warmth of a pair arises not from clinging together with difference erased, but from offering one's side while remaining different.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Do not try to become identical to the one beside you; keep their side while remaining different.
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📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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