The Light That Entered Her
The stones had cooled, but their warmth lingered like incense. I walked slowly, not expecting revelation, only presence. That is when the temples begin to speak.
The sanctuary opened like a held breath. The westward light had deepened into gold. And there she was: carved into the doorway, not posed, not adorned, but sovereign. The air shifted. I did not move.
In the darkroom, I tried to find the light again—not the light that fell, but the light that had entered her. I toned the image until that gold remained, even in silence.
last light of the sun
folds into the goddess' gaze
and forgets to leave
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The Silence of Scales
A staircase inhales, and silence thickens between stone scales. Each step remembers serpents once carved, pearl-light gathering in its breath. In this luminous flash gem, a traveller climbs toward hush and revelation, where silence itself becomes flame. A tale brief as an exhalation, yet lingering like pearl-light beneath moss.
The Crocodile and the Moon Eel: A Tide-Bargain
A crocodile waits in hush where river bends to moonlight. From the silt, a pearl-lit eel rises, whispering a bargain of scale and tide. What is given is never returned whole: hunger meets silence, storm keeps watch, and the river writes its law in breath.
Field Note: Blue Hour at Angkor
The blue hour settles over Angkor like a hush in stone. Naga coils dissolve into shadow, carvings soften into silence, and hunger without teeth endures. A sketch becomes listening. Each fracture is a hymn, each hollow a river. A field note on patience, memory, and the stillness that lingers.
$260
Angkor Wat Temple, Angkor, Cambodia — 2020
Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Edition
Strictly limited to 25 prints + 2 Artist’s Proofs
Medium
Hand-toned black-and-white archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo — a museum-grade fine art paper chosen for its quiet tactility and reverent depth, echoing the spirit of the temples.
Signature & Numbering
Each print is individually signed and numbered by the artist on the border (recto)
Certificate of Authenticity
Accompanies every print
Image Size
10.75 x 6.2 inches (27.3 x 15.7 cm)
There are moments when light no longer travels—it returns. In the sacred hush of Angkor Wat’s central sanctuary, as the sun bowed westward, a goddess stepped forward through stone.
Carved in extraordinary high relief, she emerges from the innermost wall—not as ornament, but as consecration. Her poise is not of motion, but of eternal presence. The silence that surrounds her is vast and golden.
Lucas Varro stood before her with the reverence of one who knows the language of light. Captured on large-format black-and-white film, the image was later shaped through chiaroscuro techniques and hand-toned in gold to reflect the divine radiance witnessed in that hour.
This signed and numbered archival pigment print is available in a strictly limited edition of 25 + 2 AP, rendered on museum-grade Hahnemühle Bamboo paper.
A breath held between dusk and eternity.
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