Books and Scholars’ Accouterments
"What do the things I have gathered say about who I am?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
Shelves dense with books fill the frame, with brushes, an inkstone, and porcelain set in among them. Somewhere in the painting, it is said, the artist quietly placed a seal in which he hid himself. I see this work not as a boast of possession but as a confession of aspiration. What we keep beside us reveals what kind of person we wish to become. The restraint of one who did not flaunt what he owned, but left his name softly in a corner of the frame, lingers long in the mind.
🌱Apply It Today
Take a quiet moment today to examine what kind of self the objects on your desk are pointing toward.