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Pensive

Soyoung Lee
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“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

Photography by Paul Lachenauer

Art Mentioned

Pensive bodhisattva, Gilt bronze, Korea
Pensive bodhisattva
Korea
mid-7th century

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