monastic

It takes 10 steps through the constellations to find the landing place where protection can be lush, where luxury can feel ascetic, where beauty is monastic.

The work incorporates as primary components both a mural-size video projection on the wall and a miniature color TV monitor sequestered inside a tiny, monastic, cell-like shack.

Her story is not so rare at Curtis, an extremely selective, tuition-free school whose roughly 150 students come from around the world to study with almost monastic focus.

They study with nearly monastic focus, with the numbers and skill to operate as a world-class orchestra and opera company.

“Korean Buddhist monks had a perception of: ’How dare he flaunt his looks and does Instagram as someone who became monastic,’” Beomjeong said.