marcanoabroad:

To end our day, we visited another Angkor Artisans shop, except this one specialized in the Silk that is used to create all the furniture and clothing in Cambodia.

The process is complete through the caterpillar spun silk cocoon to the final weaving of dyed silk. This was definitely interesting to see where my favorite new ties originally came from!

selfnonself:

Angkor Archaeological Park, Cambodia, 2012

yamino:

Maybe it’s because I was born and raised in Rome, surrounded by ancient architecture, but I have always been fascinated with ancient structures, and I find a strange solace in visiting ruins, particularly those being overtaken by forests.

Seeing these once marvelous structures, symbols of human power and resilience, being abandoned and slowly destroyed by nature is paradoxically reassuring.  Kind of humbling, no matter how powerful we are, everything we make eventually gets destroyed and outlived by nature.  (Well, except plastic. Maybe we should be making our buildings out of that?)