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“She does not burn.
She holds the fire.”

There is an hour at Angkor Wat when the flame does not fall—it rises. Along the western gate, the last hush of evening gathers its warmth not into sky, but into stone. The devata who stands high upon that sacred threshold receives it as if it were memory returning. Not a blaze, but a consecration.

In Stillness in the Flame of Stone, Lucas Varro offers not a record, but a presence. The image was composed in reverence, exposed on large-format black-and-white film during the final hush of day. No rush. No intervention. The stone waited, and so did the lens.

In the artist’s studio, the photograph was shaped by hand—classical chiaroscuro drawing depth from the shadows, and a careful layering of gold toning returning the flame to her form. Each print is completed not by process, but by vow.

The devata lifts her offering not toward the world, but toward the fire she keeps within. Her gesture is not an act. It is a threshold.

Stillness in the Flame of Stone is a keystone work in the Spirit of Angkor series. It embodies the devotional rhythm of Varro’s analogue practice and his ongoing meditation on sacred architecture, presence, and impermanence. To stand before this image is to feel the air just before silence speaks.

This hand-toned archival pigment print is offered on museum-grade Hahnemühle Bamboo paper in a strictly limited edition of 25 + 2 Artist’s Proofs. Each is signed and numbered by the artist and includes a Certificate of Authenticity, a printed facsimile of a field-made Chalk Study, and companion texts drawn from the Artist’s Journal.

This is not a photograph.
It is a prayer in carved light.
A silence that keeps its flame.


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