DAY 252
The Sketching of Rare Birds 写生珍禽图卷
사생진금도 (진귀한 새들을 사생하다)
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"What does the time an emperor took up a brush to paint a single bird tell us?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This painting, made by Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song himself, sketches rare birds from life with precision. One who governed a whole nation looked into even a single feather of a small bird and plied his brush. The spirit of sketching from life, observing a subject to the very end and copying it, is a path of deep knowing. Here I see the worth of immersion. The higher one's station, the easier it is to lose the leisure to look into small things. Yet the time of pouring one's whole heart into a single thing is exactly what keeps a person human amid the hurry.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Today, take a time of immersing yourself wholly in one task, forgetting all else.
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📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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