Angkor
“However much we conquer and subdue the Earth and nature, it persists in conquering and subduing us back”.

This project is a personal illustrated reflection on the power and spirit discovered in the temples of Angkor, found in the jungles of Cambodia. A symbiosis of grand architecture and surrounding jungle exploring a powerful and spiritual place on Earth. The soul centre of worship in South-East Asia from 800 b.c. and five hundred years on.

“Everywhere around you, you see nature in its dual role of destroyer and consoler; strangling on the one hand, and healing on the other; no sooner splitting the carved stones asunder than she dresses their wounds with cool, velvety mosses, and binds them with her most delicate tendrils; a conflict of moods so contradictory and feminine as to prove once more if proof were needed how well “dame” Nature merits her feminine title. So the temple is held in a stranglehold of trees. Stone and wood clasp each other in grim hostility; yet all is silent, without any visible movement to indicate their struggle as if they were wrestlers suddenly petrified, struck motionless in the middle of a fight, the rounds in this battle were not measured in minutes, but by centuries.”

“Alt i vår tilværelse er i stadig forandring. Intet er varig, alt oppstår, består og går til grunne.
Av det som går til grunne, oppstår noe nytt igjen, og slik vil det alltid være.

Buddha 640 b.c.