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3.2 Breathing as an Interactive Impersonation Tool
The conventional four gracious plants were drawn by brush and ink. However in
this piece, a daegeum as an interface replaces the formative meanings brush and
ink took. The daegeum was an musical instrument which healed our ancestors in
the past.[4] The daegeum makes very deep and pure sound by resonance and the
tone seemed to represent and express feeling of lamentation and pain of a man
of virtue that it became the musical instrument of healing cherished by classical
scholars.
Fig. 4.
The Interface (a)Drawn by brush and ink (b)Daegum: Daegum is one of the
representative musical instruments that were played in palaces during Chosun Dynasty
<The healing bamboo>
is an art embodied in breathing. For the morning
breathing method, which is the representative of an oriental mental cultiva-
tion method, we must exhale long and thin breaths through mouth, visualiz-
ingthe breath spreads out to every inch of the entire body to remove distracting
thoughts. Prior to the exhaling, we need an inhaling procedure, in which we
breath in heavily by nose to keep equilibrium. Such breathing procedures manip-
ulate consciousness and removes distracting thoughts from head and maintains
a state of equilibrium, leading to mind healing. The bamboo drawing made by
calm and consistent breathing through daegeum maintains consistency in light
and shade of ink stick. To copy bamboo in heart onto a screen, it is important
to find relaxed and untrouble breathing. By this process, modern man can read
the heart of the classical scholars which mimics the heart of a man of virtue and
can heal mind and soul naturally.
Such breathing procedures manipulate consciousness and removes distract-
ing thoughts from head and maintains a state of equilibrium, leading to mind
healing. The bamboo drawing made by calm and consistent breathing through
daegeum maintains consistency in light and shade of ink stick. To copy bamboo
in heart onto a screen, it is important to find relaxed and untrouble breathing.
By this process, modern man can read the heart of the classical scholars which
mimics the heart of a man of virtue and can heal mind and soul naturally.
