DAY 268
Schildering, AK-MAK-290-C — Rijksmuseum
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Schildering, AK-MAK-290-C

지두산수 (손가락으로 그린 산수) 다
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING

"When one paints with fingers rather than a brush, what is born in the place that leaves the set path?"

📝ONGO's Reflection

This is one of twelve landscape sheets the Qing painter Gao Qipei made with ink upon his fingers. Cast off from the familiar tool of the brush, the lines drawn with bare fingers are rough yet alive. The painter's attempt to leave the set manner and open a new path is precious anywhere. Here I see the courage of breaking form. To choose fingers when all take up the brush was no mere trick but an attitude of doubting the familiar. When one sets down, just once, the tool and manner one has always used, an unseen path opens.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

Take one task you always do the same way, and today try doing it deliberately differently.

📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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