Miindo (Standing Beauty)

📝ONGO's Reflection

This is a miindo holding a woman standing in graceful poise, the maker uncertain. Without excess ornament, it conveys a trim beauty through the folds of her robe and her bearing alone. In this restrained surface I see an unadorned dignity. Beauty does not shine the more it is painted over. In the place left after paring away, the true ground of a person reveals itself. That trim figure, stripped of splendor, lingers long in the heart because there is sincerity in it.