Sound & Silence : Artwork 2

A woman in hanbok seated in profile, her head bowed and eyes downcast, hair drawn into a low bun. The wide sleeves and long skirt of the robe fall around her on the floor, with small floral cutwork at the sleeve as the single point of detail. She cradles a bipa — the pear-shaped lute of the Korean court and folk tradition — upright against her body, one hand on the fretted neck and the other near the strings, its folded pegbox reaching toward the top of the frame. The composition fills the portrait completely, trading the look of a performance for something inward and self-contained: music as private cultivation rather than display. A piece for spaces that invite stillness and slow attention — a study, a bedroom, a quiet reading corner.