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        "tombstone": "Seed Pods, 2015. Sopheap Pich (Cambodian, b. 1971). Bamboo, rattan, steel wire. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, 2016.37. \u00a9 Sopheap Pich",
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        "title": "Seed Pods",
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        "description": "The work of Cambodian contemporary artist Sopheap Pich echoes the reverence for nature that pervades the earliest Buddhist art of India. Working in Cambodia\u2019s capital city, Phnom Penh, Pich and his team of artisans have created a monumental sculptural pair based on the form of a local variety of seed pod. The smaller pod turns toward the larger, which seems to offer reassurance and affection. The gridwork consists of hand-shaved bamboo and rattan, fired into undulating shapes and secured by steel wire made from recycled bombs and mines\u2014remnants from the revolutions and civil wars in Cambodia throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The openwork quality of the sculptures recall the emptiness and hunger felt by those\u2014including Pich\u2014who suffered under the extremist Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979.",
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                "citation": "Quintanilla, Sonya Rhie. \u201dAcquisition Highlights 2016: Indian and Southeast Asian Art.\" <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 57, no. 2 (March/April 2017): 21.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 3, 21. Mentioned: pp. 7, 21",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:53:41.321000"
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