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In the hush of the western gallery, battle yields to breath, and light becomes a prayer pressed into stone.
A lone warrior stands—neither fleeing nor triumphant—beneath a glow that speaks not of war, but of remembrance.

Carved across nearly fifty meters of sandstone, the Battle of Kurukshetra unfolds in waves of chariots and warriors—a crescendo of divine conflict drawn from the Mahabharata.  Yet here, in this image, the tumult dissolves.  Only one figure remains.  Shield lifted, body stilled, he hovers between resistance and surrender.  His gesture is not action, but pause—not conquest, but contemplation.  The myth falls quiet, and story becomes presence.

The photograph was made slowly.  Lucas Varro entered the sacred corridor with a large format analogue camera, alone in the silence of a world suspended.  He waited as the fading sun, filtered through the jungle canopy, brushed the walls with a strange green-gold glow.  He did not seek to compose, but to receive.  When the moment opened, he exposed the film in one long breath of reverence.

In the solitude of the studio, the ritual continued.  Chiaroscuro shaped the negative like shadow carved into bone—guiding the eye through quiet rather than contrast.  Hand-toning followed, not for ornament but remembrance.  Layer by layer, washes of gold and ash were coaxed into the print until it held the atmosphere of that hour: something not seen, but felt.  The result is not a reproduction, but a return.  A devotional artefact shaped by the same silence that once held the shield aloft.

Created as part of the Spirit of Angkor series, this photograph is not a record of myth—it is its echo.  For the spiritually attuned collector, it offers not a story to behold, but a space to enter.  A still point.  A breath suspended in stone.  A light that does not strike, but listens.

Each print is crafted on museum-grade Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, known for its soft tactility and tonal richness.  The edition is strictly limited to 25, with 2 Artist’s Proofs, each one hand-toned, signed, and numbered.  Accompanied by the artist’s Field Journal, poems, and curatorial texts, the work becomes a place to return to—again and again—where the fever of myth gives way to the stillness that endures.


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