DAY 102
Korean puppet show - Album of 100 genre scenes (late 19th C) - BL Or.
꼭두각시놀음 (기산 풍속화첩)
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"Watching puppets that move on strings, what were people laughing at?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This is a puppet-play scene painted by Gisan Kim Jun-geun. The puppets, bound to unseen hands and strings, weep and laugh and mimic the lives of people. Onlookers laugh at the puppets, but in truth they see their own figures there. In this play I see reflection held at a distance. Moved onto puppets, the absurdity and sorrow of human life at last grow distinct. If I look at my own affairs from a step back, as at puppets, what strings I have been moving on is revealed. To know the strings that move me is the beginning of freedom.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Look calmly, as if watching puppets from a step away, at what unseen strings are moving you now.
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📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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