I am intrigued by a scene in my current K-D indulgence. The female protagonist, escaping an arranged marriage, has gone to the temple to pay respect to her dead parents. Her "wanted poster" identifies her as someone in mourning clothes. Coming down from the mountain, she is inadvertently close to a sword fight and her white hanbok gets splattered with blood. Her sword-fighting paramour, one third of the requisite love triangle, is very clever. He searches the body he has dispatched for a piece of charcoal. In the next scene we see that the sleeve and skirt of her dress is not blood-splattered, but sports an elegant plum-blossom design. Her savior has drawn in branches, no more mourning dress, but now tres chic.
Actually this technique, connecting splatters, is one taught by my Chinese painting teacher. I don't think I would have fully appreciated this scene without taking the painting class. How everything fits together! You just have to be open to the connections.
3 comments:
a handy technique for a hired assassin i suppose. hard to imagine any other practical use for it.
autobody work maybe?
possibly useful to a drycleaner or a tattooist...
a cook even.
wow you're right. fascinating.
I'm thinking Miasma could use some decoration....
nO!!!
that wasn't what I meant by autobody work.
its hard to explain.
something to do with bird droppings on grey primer...
intuitive stuff, you know.
the enamel goes over the top and it all looks ordinary, but underneath the surface, superb art lies hidden and unexpected.
somethinG like that.
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