DAY 29
Munja-Chaekgeori Screen (Character — 작자 미상
Munja-Chaekgeori Screen (Character 작자 미상 · 11th century · Wikimedia Commons Public Domain View source ↗

Munja-Chaekgeori Screen (Character

문자도·책거리 병풍
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING

"What was in the heart that enshrined words and books as painting?"

📝ONGO's Reflection

Characters such as filial piety and loyalty become images, and books and writing implements stack neatly across the screen. An unnamed artisan brought learning and virtue into the home in a form the eye could see. To paint a word as an image is a vow to face an abstract value every single day. What hangs on the wall was not decoration but the shape of a life one wished to live. What we keep beside us is a quiet answer to the question of what we wish to become.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

Look around at what you have hung in your space, and ask whether it points toward where you want to go.

📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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