“It’s more about contemplating the notion of a being or a world that is beyond the one that I'm inhabiting.”
Curator Soyoung Lee on a pensive seventh-century bodhisattva.
Contributors
Soyoung Lee
Curator, Department of Asian Art
Curator, Department of Asian Art
Photography by Paul Lachenauer
Art Mentioned
Korea
mid-7th century
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